12-21-2009, 12:39 PM
i was their just running trains and not doing anything else. what i found that helped me on my layout to do the scenery was looking at books taking a drive going for a walk with my camera taking pics of things then modeling it nothing is better then looking at a tree on a river and seeing how the years worked it's base.
here is how i did it i
made a scenery layout plan just like a track plan but for your scenery.
made the layout a big grid marked off parts to spots i could be done in an hour or so. then i worked on that spot.
then as i got that grid done i would look at it and see if i need to add something.
where to start most work form track back into the backdrop
i work from backdrop to the tracks
the biggest things that you will need to get pics of that help alot in doing scenery
train yards get pics of everything. may sound stupid but even the oil on the tracks help. get the weeds if the have piles of old ties get pics of them also any thing that you can think of.
doing water get all the pics you can go to smaller streams that flood get pics of the water and what it dose how it pushes along the bank
doing briges same pics of everything. even that hobo that lives under it.
we are modeling after real trains and the more we pull from the real into our models the better they look
alot of the older guys here remember the old pics i posted of my layout with the yard and then the one of the bridge
that is a shame i don't have them any more not even the layout. and this new layout if no photo wife made me promise due to having keegens pass
i am going to start a shelf switching layout soon to due atlot of kit bashing and trying some new things out on.
doing scenery is not a big deal if you use the way i did all my layouts you will see the out come as the days go bye.
and you can still run your loco as you do this. just put the music on get a drink start up your power unit and be for you know your done with that spot and ready to move on.
here is how i did it i
made a scenery layout plan just like a track plan but for your scenery.
made the layout a big grid marked off parts to spots i could be done in an hour or so. then i worked on that spot.
then as i got that grid done i would look at it and see if i need to add something.
where to start most work form track back into the backdrop
i work from backdrop to the tracks
the biggest things that you will need to get pics of that help alot in doing scenery
train yards get pics of everything. may sound stupid but even the oil on the tracks help. get the weeds if the have piles of old ties get pics of them also any thing that you can think of.
doing water get all the pics you can go to smaller streams that flood get pics of the water and what it dose how it pushes along the bank
doing briges same pics of everything. even that hobo that lives under it.
we are modeling after real trains and the more we pull from the real into our models the better they look
alot of the older guys here remember the old pics i posted of my layout with the yard and then the one of the bridge
that is a shame i don't have them any more not even the layout. and this new layout if no photo wife made me promise due to having keegens pass
i am going to start a shelf switching layout soon to due atlot of kit bashing and trying some new things out on.
doing scenery is not a big deal if you use the way i did all my layouts you will see the out come as the days go bye.
and you can still run your loco as you do this. just put the music on get a drink start up your power unit and be for you know your done with that spot and ready to move on.