Terrain Dilemma

[rrinker]

Wayne's post sums me up nicely. I hav my track almost all done, enough feeders are wired so it runs reliably, so now I am left with scenery. And it does make me nervous. My last try at scenery was over 30 years ago and consisted mainly of painting my N scale layout's table an earth borwn color, painting on some white glue, and sprinking on ground foam. More recently, but still quite a long time ago, I was a member of a club and when I moved I had an L shaped shelf layout, one piece of which I donated to the club to use as a display to attract others to the club location. It was simply a bare shelf board with track on roadbed. My condition was that I would would with the scenery guy so I could learn how to do this stuff, but alas most of it got sceniced when I wasn't around. Being an engineer by temperment and training, I naturally gravitate to wiring and stuff like that. Drawing, outsode of stick figures or mechanical drawing with proper tools, s a skill that eludes me. Picking and matching colors - that too seems to be beyond me.

However, I am determined to not have a simple Pink Prairie layout, and so soon will start at least SOMETHING. My modeled area is basically flat, and not so far away that I can't go look at the real thing and take pictures, although most of what you see today is generic industrial buildings that didn't exist int he 50's era I model. Should be interesting to say the least.

--Randy