As I have aquired all of the required track for my layout, I am starting to think of scenery. does anyone have experience of the great eatern trunk layout in an atlas book? I need pictures for inspiration and ideas. Thank you all for your help.
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You have a very specific question. Have you tried a google seach?
yes. however, it was fruitless. I tried search engines, but they don’t turn out results. thank you though.
I have the book with the layout which you describe. The layout is intended to have mountain like scenery with trees, and tunnels and the like. I doubt many pictures of how the layout built for the book was scenicked will turn up, as the book was first written in the mid 60s. My suggestion is to look at the pictures they privide in the book, then wing it from their. Scenery is pretty easy to do, and easy to change if you mess it up. For mountains I would cover the track under where you wnat your mountain to go with masking tape, then along the edge of the layout make an edge profile board out of Masonite or 1/2 plywood, so you can bring the secenery right up to the edge of the layout, (Leave a hole in each profile board or make a door, this will allow you access derailed trains later.) After your profile boards are in place, stack up crumbled newspapers in the area you want your mountain to roughly the height you want your mountain to be. (Make sure it is at least high eneugh that it left the railroad no option but to tunnel through it rather than make a deep cut.) after the newspapers are stacked, start covering them with your choice of hardshell covering. Some people use plaster soaked gause or paper towels, I prefer woodland scenic’s plaster cloth. Get a good coverage, I would go at least 4 layers of hardshell. Let each layer dry fully before applying the next. however wet the previous later with a mist of water before applying the next layer, so the dry layer doesn’t suck all the water out of new wet layer causing a crubling mountainside. also when laying your hardshell, remember to leave holes where your tunnel is supposed to go, when your done adding hard shell to the mountain, and it is thorougly dry. remove all the newspapers through the holes or doors I told you to leave earlier. From here is is a standard scenery job, and your choice of scenery techniques from the many good books and articles on scenery can giuid you the rest of the way. The rest of the layout should feature valley like scenery to co