03-02-2010, 06:25 AM
I did feel more and more uneasy while I was working on the country side layout. It looks nice and cute but being a city boy I see and experienced an other world.
A short trip to the cellar brought my loved concrete and brick buildings from 2009 back to the layout. Together with the light ballast and the sandy ground is the overall impression not as depressing as when I switched to the Florida theme.
Most building suffered a lot and need repair action but I think that is the basic layout I will work on this year. They are just "put" on the layout. I need to make them part of the layout after repair, weathering and lettering.
![[Image: IMGP4041.JPG]](http://rubpeters.ru.funpic.de/h020101/IMGP4041.JPG)
![[Image: IMGP4042.JPG]](http://rubpeters.ru.funpic.de/h020101/IMGP4042.JPG)
![[Image: IMGP4043.JPG]](http://rubpeters.ru.funpic.de/h020101/IMGP4043.JPG)
The Walthers merchant rows are new and had been intended for the small town but they will fit in the industrial area fine too. They will be reduced in depth to permit a road in front.
The buildings have been build in summer/fall 2009 but never installed on a layout other than for tests. At that time I had planned very dark ground cover and dark ballast. Together with the industry buildings was the result a mess of darkness and the trigger to look at the Florida project. I think it is better balanced now with the light ground cover and ballast.
May be the mill complex on the left side is not mine but owned by CERN. Does CERN have a branch in Germany?
ps. I did change the name of the thread for a better fit
A short trip to the cellar brought my loved concrete and brick buildings from 2009 back to the layout. Together with the light ballast and the sandy ground is the overall impression not as depressing as when I switched to the Florida theme.
Most building suffered a lot and need repair action but I think that is the basic layout I will work on this year. They are just "put" on the layout. I need to make them part of the layout after repair, weathering and lettering.
The Walthers merchant rows are new and had been intended for the small town but they will fit in the industrial area fine too. They will be reduced in depth to permit a road in front.
The buildings have been build in summer/fall 2009 but never installed on a layout other than for tests. At that time I had planned very dark ground cover and dark ballast. Together with the industry buildings was the result a mess of darkness and the trigger to look at the Florida project. I think it is better balanced now with the light ground cover and ballast.
May be the mill complex on the left side is not mine but owned by CERN. Does CERN have a branch in Germany?
ps. I did change the name of the thread for a better fit
Reinhard