Doug Tagsold (sry if misspelled) is in my opinion, one of the top 10 great mrr’s of the day. In his winter park section of his huge layout, you are emersed into a winter wonderland! How did he do it? How do you do it? Is Woodland Scenics snow work well and realistic? And how about bare, no leaf trees during winter, any tips for HO or N models? Thnks alot, bnsf97
I have heard great things about the Woodland Scenics snow. It is made for the purpose. It is a bit pricey though. Don’t know about trees.
For trees I have visited the dryed weed department of some craft stores (Micheals) and found some nice stuff. The names change and sometimes you have to bru***he dried leaves off, but just looking at what they have in stock at any moment might give you what they need. If not, look again in a few months. The stock is constantly changing.
I have also made limited use of Spiria and other things from my wife’s garden. Some need several branches held together with florist’s tape.
Also, if you have a garden, pulling weeds or dead annuals this time of year,some of the roots when cleaned and dried make great bare trees, some bushes, like blueberry and certain hedges have good small branches for trees. Take a walk in the woods,or along the edge of feilds,there’s lots of stuff to be found.
The best winter trees that I have seen in recent years have been the ones done by Paul Dolkos. He had an article in Model Railroader in November 1993. The article was titled “The November Scene - modeling bare trees.”
This article, and two excellent articles by Rand Hood on modeling winter scenes, are reprinted in Kalmbach’s book “The New Scenery Tips and Techniques.”
If you’ve noticed the bare trees in Paul Dolkos’s two recent articles in Oct. and Nov. 2005 issues of Model Railroader, I think you’ll agree that his trees are excellent. The technique is not a quick one, but quick results aren’t necessarily good ones.
By the way, the book has quite a number of good techniques in it besides the ones I mentioned.
-Ed
Woodland scenics snow and white paint-
Jon
i still do not have a layout,but i have very much planned it.so where excactly do you get the wood land scenics snow?i was at first thinking of using white cotton swabs and every year during winter here pit it all around the layout around but not inside the track as it will clog up the gears and if it gets caught in the outer spokes or the magnematics couplers extender at the bottom it will be pulled along. i enjoy all the posts about how to make a snowy layout.
The current issue of Classic Toy Trains has an story on making a snow scene.