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Creating The Scenic Landscape by Trevor Booth Step By step guide
Creating The Scenic Landscape by Trevor Booth A series of books providing a no-nonsense step by step guide to model railway construction
Stations and buildings, fields and trees, roads and rivers, construction techniques, painting and detailing
Soft Cover
96 pages
Copyright 1994
CONTENTS
Introduction5
fhe scenic base and ballasting the track7
Basic ground cover7
Ballasting the track8
I1e%eloping the landscape15
Forming the contours16
Rock faces and cuttings19
Roads and water22
Earth, grass and crops29
Trees and bushes, hedges and fences32
3 The urban scene38
Platt Lane: adapting reality
to the model38
:onstructing buildings53
I )etailing buildings63
Civil engineering68
4 Signalling75
Signal boxes80
5 Populating the layout88
People and animals88
Road vehicles92
Final thoughts95
Index96
INTRODUCTION
This, the second volume in the Silver Link Library of Railway Modelling, covers the development of
what is commonly known as the scenic side of the construction of a model railway. In effect it covers a range of matters, including ballasting and painting the track, the effects that can be created through the development of rural and urban scenes, constructing model buildings, and adding vehicles and people. I am aware that I am attempting to cover a wide range of issues and hope that in doing so I have not missed out anything important. I have tried to concentrate on those areas which I believe are of greatest importance, yet without omitting completely some of the more basic matters that must be addressed.
In this introduction, if for no other reason than to explain what comes in subsequent sections and why, I will explain my approach to developing a model railway. My aim in producing a model is to please me, its builder - otherwise why do it? To please me a model railway must provide as `holistic' a view as possible. In other words, I want the trains, their movement and the landscape in which they operate (and the manner of their operation) to convey to me a picture of a real railway operating in its environment, whether it be rural Sussex or darkest Yorkshire.
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