Landscape Modelling by Barry Norman Soft Cover

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Landscape Modelling

By Barry Norman

Soft Cover

66 Pages

Contents

Ch 1

Planning A Model Landscape 1

Ch 2

Baseboards 7

Ch 3

Foundations for a Landscape 15

Ch 4

Detailing the Landscape 23

Ch 5

Presentation of a Landscape Model 58

A Modellers Sketch Pad 63

A thrush sits in the comfort of an ash tree, singing his morning song as the branches sway to the rhythm of the breeze, and sunlight plays through dancing clouds onto a nearby station platform. Corn rustles, the stream glitters and gurgles, and cattle leave tracks in the dew on a meadow of golden buttercups. A chilly summer's morn in Cornwall.

This is a rather lyrical way to set the scene, but it suits my purpose, for I believe there's more to modelling a railway than just the railway itself. I try to see it in a far fuller and deeper sense the complete picture of a railway as a part of its surrounding landscape.

And there are many different landscapes: swathes of heather-clad moorland, where crows wheel overhead; dark, rich marshes and fens, where skylarks hover in the endless sky; limestone peaks and crags, where falcons rule; orchards and meadowlands, home to hordes of squabbling sparrows.

Railways have distinctive locations, the nature and character of which are as crucial as the identity of the lines themselves. Indeed, the landscape and yes, even the birdlife contribute to that identity in a massive and fundamental way, inseparable from the railway weaving through it. Just as the Highland Railway's metals traversed braes and burns, pine woods and glowering distilleries, so the South Eastern Railway's identity is inextricably linked to red brick oast houses, hop fields and orchards.

Seeing all this and bringing it to life under one's own hands can do so much to enrich our models; it can say far more about the location of a station than the railway can by itself. It may be easy to identify a London and North Western station by its shiplapped buildings, its signals and signal boxes but surround it with dry stone walls, a shelter belt of trees, a lone limestone haybarn, and it must be in Derbyshire.

Studying the landscape surrounding the railway, and trying to capture that natural character in miniature, is challenging and rewarding and will result in a more complete, authentic and interesting model. That, I hope, will be the message of this book.

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