Freelance 2016-1

[shortliner]

Reinhard - have you seen this?

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[faraway]

I like the idea to use white glue for castings.

A layer of light gray, some black wash and some brown dry brush and a concrete basement. The front part of the concrete yard is fresh buried under gras awaiting bushes and trees.
IMG_4799 by faraway52, on Flickr
IMG_4798 by faraway52, on Flickr

[lajry]

Really like your corrugated building! Makes me want to do my LAJ engine house NOW.

[faraway]

Got some more trees and some more weathering. The overall effect of green on a basically unchanged urban layout is impressive to me.

IMG_4802 by faraway52, on Flickr
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This little series may provide an impression of the updated "green layout"
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Ready for vacation Wednesday next week

[torikoos]

great stuff Reinhard.

Have a lot of fun on the UK's most southern island next week :-)

Koos

[faraway]

The new planted trees had a lighter green color than the other bought some weeks before. They looked in the real light far to light.
I thought it must be easy to "repaint" them being a total novice doing nature.
My first choice was a can of dark green. It worked great but looked lousy. The trees lost the 3-dimensional and looked flat. Next try was a light spray of light green to get light green tips on a dark green tree. Failure again, I got a solid dull looking light green something.

1. Lesson learned: Solid paint is not suitable to get natural shades of leaves.

I got a can of spray glue and and Woodland medium green turf. That is about the color I need. The application went fine (first time "making" of a tree) but the result was not as expected. the solid turf was better than paint but not as good as the bought trees. Next try was blended turf used for weed etc. That was about what I expected.

2. Lesson learned: Solid turf lacks the variations of mother nature

IMG_4812 by faraway52, on Flickr

The new trees covered with blended turf.
IMG_4811 by faraway52, on Flickr

They are fine now but there is another fundamental problem with my first attempts to model nature.
It is far to technical. I have a two component construction made of 1) grass and 2) trees. That is not the way nature looks. Even the most simple scenery is composed of at least 10 components.
This photo borrowed from Henry Dell at Flickr shows the variety used by nature for the simplest scenery. It is a long way from shoe boxes to green gras .... :o

Grass Running by Henry Dell (Elchlok), on Flickr

[torikoos]

the most natural scenes have always been those with a multitude of colours and texture, I'm sure you're familiar with the work of Jon Grant (look up Sweet home Alabama layout), his secret is also using lots of variety, and where possible use nature itself, not a synthetic substitute. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.facebook.com/Sweethome-Alabama-201342969884638/photos_stream">https://www.facebook.com/Sweethome-Alab ... tos_stream</a><!-- m -->
Not being critical of your work, just trying to help improving, I like your latest version of your layout. I just tore down half of mine to redo it completely, track and all.

Koos

[faraway]

Koos, I fully agree. Jon's Alabama layout is a good example. There are some others and the most outstanding in scale 0 (e.g. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.p...ra-harbor/).
They all have a artistically instead of technical approach in common. Bad luck, I am not an artist at all.

ps. I was surprised by Jon's Alabama layout after the outstanding urban Chicago layout. His Chicago layout (and the Ponca yard from Belgium) was one of the layouts that pushed me into US model railroading.

[Catt]

Reinhard, maybe you should follow Jon's lead and get yourself a chubby furball who is not the least bit bashful about moving things around like trees till Jon finally gets the idea and puts the tree where she keeps putting them. :wait: :wait: :wait: :wait: :mrgreen:

[BR60103]

Reinhard, maybe you should follow Jon's lead and get yourself a chubby furball who is not the least bit bashful about moving things around like trees till Jon finally gets the idea and puts the tree where she keeps putting them. :wait: :wait: :wait: :wait: :mrgreen:

Mine keep putting them down across the tracks.


Suggest adding a bit of non-green colour to the mix, but not very much.

[faraway]

Two samples of added details.
IMG_4814 by faraway52, on Flickr
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[torikoos]

looks great Reinhard, I like this! :-) Yes Poncha yard is also very nice (I've never seen the old one, only 'new Poncha yard', but it's great.).

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Koos

[faraway]

Don't disturb, I am detailing...... vine and corn plants are misused as weed to get some variation of shape and color.

IMG_4818 by faraway52, on Flickr
IMG_4817 by faraway52, on Flickr
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[torikoos]

pssst... I don't want to disturb you.... pssst. Looks good though.... I'll sneak away now..

[ratled]

Reinhard I saw this thread on MRH and thought of you and your tree whoas. I hope this helps

Steve

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