I need some help with materials and so on. I want to build a scene from an Arkansas(U.S.)kinda look with a German country side look. So I need help on making it Arkansas-Germanish. Any ideas?
I will start in a month or two so I need to know what to get…
Forgot to say this. I use HO.
Difficult to say what a German countryside look is. Germany is a small country when compared to the US, but each region has a distinct look. That sugar sweet look, which is perceived to be German by a lot of folks in the US, can only be found in the southernmost part of Bavaria. The countryside around Hamburg, where I live, looks VERY much different. There is one thing that all regions have in common - the country is very green due to the loads of rain we have!
Norther Germany:
Southern Germany/Bavaria:
… and somewhere in the middle:
Structures, trees and other landscaping material typical for a German countryside are produced by Faller, Vollmer, Kibri, Busch and others - check the Walther´s reference book or web pages.
If you want US equipment a good place to start is www.walthers.com for european equipment you mightwant to check out www.kibri.com