03-12-2012, 10:04 AM
Here is a layer of dirt and rocks:
I learned to do scenery as a member of the Slim Gauge Guild in the 1970s, when they had their big layout on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. There were several geology professors as members too, and they taught me a lot more than I learned in my college Geology class. I sort of depart from the MR Virginian series here: when you look at a hillside on the East Coast, you see more than just the tops of trees. You do see rocks and ground cover and so forth as well. The real difference between Western US scenery and Eastern is simply that there are more trees covering the basic geology in the East, but that's no reason not to try to model all the layers, which is what I'm working on here.
When I go railfanning in mountain or desert areas, I often take some coffee cans to pick up dirt and small rocks for use in scenery. I have a collection of different colors, and I'll use three colors in the whole scene here.
I learned to do scenery as a member of the Slim Gauge Guild in the 1970s, when they had their big layout on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. There were several geology professors as members too, and they taught me a lot more than I learned in my college Geology class. I sort of depart from the MR Virginian series here: when you look at a hillside on the East Coast, you see more than just the tops of trees. You do see rocks and ground cover and so forth as well. The real difference between Western US scenery and Eastern is simply that there are more trees covering the basic geology in the East, but that's no reason not to try to model all the layers, which is what I'm working on here.
When I go railfanning in mountain or desert areas, I often take some coffee cans to pick up dirt and small rocks for use in scenery. I have a collection of different colors, and I'll use three colors in the whole scene here.