dropshort105

Oh, I love "abandoned" on a layout, there is so much can be done with an abandoned line, looking forward with great interest to what you come up with.

Yeah, looking forward to seeing your plan.

Yeah, usually the real thing doesn't scale down very well, I think these ones do, and plenty more where they came from, with the price of half decent looking trees , I might go into commercial production

I was out for a walk yesterday, the twigs on a dead tree cought my eye, I have no idea what kind of tree it was, but five minutes with some lichen and some scatter, they came up beautifully.

If you have any interest in this PM me you address and I will pop it in the post.

Wow, that is not much space, but from reading magazines, well looking at pictures in them anyway, it can be done.

If you want it flexible use strips of cork instead of cardboard,

Stone walls, strip of cardboard with ballast glued on, cap stones done with cat litter.

Please do

Wow, just wow, I would certainly be interested in one.

As it is very difficult to get under the landscape for wiring lights and whatnot, I run a 12v circuit around the frame with copper tape, one positive one negative, I run a third strip wired to the 12V positive via a 3V resistor, the gives me a 3v circuit as well. I can then run 12v or 3v power along along the surface to wherever it is needed, then hide it under roads, buildings or even the flower beds. A great benefit is that I don't need to individually fuse 3v lights etc as they can simply be wired directly to the 3v circuit. Of course the circuit on the frame will have to be covered over later for safety.

I will post on the next helix build so I have some more tree building tricks to try, will post if any of them work.

Thanks, but I must admit, I am getting a little obsessed with this one little corner of it, I really need to wrap it up and move on.

Plastic flowers and dry moss from The Range, some brown paint, hairspray, important safety tip ( do not steal it from your wife ). Some green scatter and some light gray coarse ballast, although I'm sure some household condiments like semolina would work just as well. Clip off a couple of the stems, pull the flowers off and chuck em, they are way too big. Paint the stalks. Shove dry moss in between the branches and apply a liberal coating of hairspray. Apply more hairspray and liberally apply scatter, I alternate between colours, this gives it a bit of shading and reduces uniformity. Apply another liberal coating of hairspray and then the gray ballast. Drill a hole, and shove it in with a little PVA, 15 minutes and you are done.

I will make some more today and take some pics of the process, it only takes a couple of minutes.