Scenery work continues

With the wind in the sails, I continued to work on the scenery trying to lift the scenes on the layout. Still haven't finished the scenes yet. Saturday morning began with making some more fences - took about one hour to cut to length the posts and glue them. The next day paint was applied. Bought some smallish trees from amazon and dulled them down a bit to remove the shine and planted a few for now. Also looked at improving the road crossing section by adding some texture and atmosphere. On Sunday evening, the fences that were made were erected. Need to build a few more. I was thinking about how to paint the level crossing unbroken line near on the road near the rail line. Eventually I will look at installing flashing warning lights on approach of a movement - however I will need some sort of override as movements stop to change crew here before departing on to their final journey. With time spent on the scenery, unfortuantely there is no time running trains. The weekend was another cold one.

Some scenery time

After visiting Bob's amazing layout last Tuesday, I was inspired to do some scenery work on my own layout - not that I am going to be achiving anything close to what Bob has done on his layout! so no trains were run this weekend on the layout. One thing I focused on this weekend was adding some more trees. When I went for a walk with the missus, I spotted some twigs so I thought I could use the twigs as HO Scale trees as they already look pretty good. With the cost of some HO Scale trees in the $35+ range I thought it would be better to make my own with the added benefit that they are very unique. One twig/tree I found look really interesting - it was bent to an odd shape and I thought that would look cool on the layout as it is quite unique. So I added some leaves and planted this bent tree on the layout. I think it looks pretty good

I also spotted another looking tree but when I went to plant it the trunk broke and I tried gluing it back in place but couldn't - so I thought why not just leave it as is and model it broken - I think it looks pretty cool

Futher, I have now put the backboard in place for this section of truck and was thinking what to do here as I didn't really like the look - i removed the all the old plantations here (lichen) and was wondering how to spruce this area up - I eventually moved an old tree I made some years back and planted it here - it's amazing how well this worked - they eye now gets "caught" at this area - and it has solved the problem for me! Tree and backboard:

I also worked on this area which is to the right of the scene- looks alot better than it was previously - still need to finish this area off e.g. by adding some foilage and ballast and complete the road crossing

Now here are some photos from Bob's layout (hope this inspires you)

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