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Another great video full of wonderful tips and ideas! I actually like the scene so well that I’m hijacking portions of it for a new area on my layout just outside a rural town I’m adding! Thanks!!
I do have a question regarding the manhole covers along your highway….basically, WHY? You’re out in rural-land, and can’t imagine there are is infrastructure access needed for water/sewer/cable/electric lines, etc. Just wondering?
Gerry
Excellant work on the scene.
I’ve built a bottle brush winder for making my own trees. Use 22 gauge soft steel wire and tacky glue on one wire, then lay over the wire stands of hemp rope fibers, lay the second wire and spin them together like you’d get with safety wire pliers.
Paint truck color then instead of dipping the whole tree in glue, cut a 6-10 inch plastic bottle length wise in half, then put glue in the base layed down. That way you can spin the foiliage without getting glue on the trunk. Foiliage seldom grows naturally on the trunk.
When I go to plant the trees, I place a 1/8″ styrene tube over about 3/4″ at the base, the tacky glue will hold it in place and drill all the holes 1/8″ but no glue. That way if I need to work near the trees, I can simply pull them out and replace them when work is done.
Keep up the fine work, enjoy every one of your videos.
Gerry,
I use Avery full page label paper to print my photo backdrops, so I don’t have to get them “wet”.
I found those small clothespins at a Dollar Tree store and they are great. I do a lot of scratchbuilding so they are a useful way to hold pieces for gluing. Since they are so small and light, they don’t deform very thin pieces as in a wooden handrail so they stay where you want them to be until the glue dries.
Thanks, everyone! Finishing touches finish off the series in Episode 6.
Ted: there’s no big secret to sizing backdrops. As I mention in the video, I just print them out on an inexpensive printer and see if the scale is right. If not, I resize it and print it out again.
Very nice! Your varied use of trees looks great as well. I’ve been wondering if you plan to do a more in depth look at making photo backdrops for your layout. I have a hard time with figuring out what size to set the photo at so it looks realistic compared to the scenery. Examples of putting a photo backdrop together would be very helpful.
Gerry…Isn’t it going to be more difficult to ballast the track since you already “planted” the evergreens?
Later, I’m going to make a few more Timber Line trees for my layout.
-Greg
Excellent work as always Gerry… you’re inspiring me to get back to work on my layout and finish some scenes.
Nice job my friend. Can’t wait for the next installment.
Wow Gerry, that is looking great. I’m looking forward to part 6 for sure.
As always a great informational how – to show. Thank you
Looking good so far. Two quick thoughts. First, you mentioned the lack of shoulders on the roads. Here in Tn, even today, many of the rural roads lack shoulders and ditches. So you’re right with the prototype there. Second though is on the pine trees. Don’t know about the region you’re modeling, but farmed forests are common in the south. A common sight is a stand of little 2-3 foot pines all in rows like corn, with some of the debris from the previous harvest still showing. I’ve wondered about modeling such a scene to set the location as the south in visitor’s minds.
Gerry, I wouldn’t worry about the lack of shoulders on your road as there are plenty of roads without them. You might want to put a warning sign at each end so that “out of towners” and/or “flatland tourists” are aware of that fact.
Nice work on the backdrop and the cornfield.
Beautiful scene!!!
Nice work Gerry. I assume those circles on the road centerline are manholes and the corn field looks great. Need some crows on that fence?? Thanks.