Desert plants

[nkp_174]

Yep, all those westerns you see with tumbleweeds are factually incorrect.

What'd ya mean? Doesn't the entire West look like Monument Valley and have tumbleweeds blowing past every 5 minutes???

Oh, wait...what you've said jives quite well with my travel experiences.

I love the wire techinque...flexible enough that you could just bend it back into shape if a visitor smashed it with his camera...or a dozen other things which could/do happen

I'm thinking that the Palm trees will be the best indicator that my layout is in Hawaii. The concrete roundhouse and passenger Terminal will be more likely to convince them that it is a narrow gauge railroad than anything else. Half of the main deck of my layout will be required to reasonably depict the heavily industrialized terminal facilities at Honolulu. The rest of that deck will be required to take the track to the main junction (and, as I'll model it, the end of the signal protected double track mainline). Only a hand full of buildings have hints of Asian architecture, so I'll have to rely on a good representation of the tropical flora and pineapple cars coming off the branch to tell people that it is Hawaii. I expect that it will take some effort to convince them that it is Hawaii in On3 rather than Southern California in S standard gauge. Hence, I'll continue following this thread as long as its active...your results are exceptional. I have a Michael's run in my near future...