Model Train Scenery

There’s a temptation to crowd in too much track when you are laying out your model train track and not being able to fit the scenery between the track and the edge of your model.

Try to keep the track several inches in from the edges to allow for scenery.

When going for trees and forests, not only plan the area you’ll be modelling, and the trees common to that area, but the time of year and the weather conditions. Each factor that you consider will tend to make a difference.

Constructing scenery involves preparing a sub-terrain using a wide variety of building materials, including screen wire, a lattice of cardboard strips, or carved stacks of expanded polystyrene sheets.

A model railroad display comes to life when the scenery looks like reality. A few basic scenery elements can add realism to even a very basic railroad display.

One important point to remember about your model railroad scenery is that you are only limited by your imagination and creativity.

• • Train Set
  • Signs and Signals
  • Paintbrushes
  • Paints
  • Bridges
  • Buildings
  • People
  • Train Stations
  • Train Tunnels
  • Vehicles
  • Plywood Sheets
  • Glues
  • Animals
  • Shrubs
  • Trees

All of the above items should be on the same scale and to the scale of your model railway.