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Summary: Create some greenery in your model train town. Learn how to make Trees for a model train layout in this free train hobby video.
For the past seven years, Kevin Blakeney has been creating village displays of all sizes in retail and residential settings throughout Southern California. Through his experience, he...read more
"My name is Kevin Blakeney and on behalf of Expert Village, we are now going to tackle landscaping on your new model railroad village. We are now ready to move on to the third step of landscaping which is your trees. Now these provide structural value to your display as well as camouflaging the rough edges of your structures and blending them better into your rock work. When you select your trees you are going to want to select a wide variety of styles everything from conifers, to deciduous trees, to some dead. This one comes complete with some liking and it adds even more natural value to your display. For the higher elevations you can even go with some snow cover. Not necessarily pink but snow cover. These are going to work perfect for your mountains. When you place your trees you are going to want to start grouping them around your structures. I like to use the corners of them. Don't be afraid to modified your trees, you want your trees right against the structure fold them or even cut them . This is going to make your display much more natural. You are going to want ot continue doing this until you have trees on just about every level and whola you have your own personal forest. Very detailed, very very gated with different tress on every level, perfectly matching every structure. You are now ready to move on to the next step."
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homodeltrains said
on 1/29/2009 Nice clear instructions. How can I contact you? I've got some suggestions.
Cheers
Ian