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Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders Complete Photo Guide Soft Cover
Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders Complete Photo Guide
Model Railroader Books
By Lou Sassi
Soft Cover
Copyright 2002
96 Pages
Your step-by-step photo guide to modeling realistic model railroad scenery
This indispensable book gives you simple solutions needed to build scenery for a layout of any size or scale. Clear, concise instructions and over 200 step-by-step color photographs and diagrams demonstrate quick and easy, yet effective, techniques for adding realistic scenery elements to your model railroad.
In the pages of Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders, you'll learn how to:
Prepare and apply ground covering to various landscapes
Model various types of trees and woodlands
Create streams, ponds, and swamps
Construct roadways
Build and install small but effective trackside details
You'll also find that a number of these instructions are presented as "one-evening" projects that can be completed in the course of an evening or any other time you have a few hours.
Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders is an essential reference that makes it easy for you to build extraordinary scenery!
Contents
In the beginning4
Groundwork
Foaming at the base8
Covering some ground14
Woodlands
Concocting a conifer18
Handling hardwoods22
Super-duper trees and more26
Leaf me be28
Finishing the forest scene32
Rocks, Rivers & Ponds
Light rock for your easy lifting pleasure36
Swamp thing38
Down by the old mill stream, part 148
Down by the old mill stream, part 254
Rural Landscape
Fence me in60
Tilling the soil64
Roads
Do it in dirt70
Rocky road adventure74
Concrete streets from styrene sheets78
Details
Flanger lift flags82
Lay it on the line84
Making the grade88
Details make a difference92
Suppliers and manufacturers96
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