Greetings All, Curious as to the most popular seasons modeled? [ 05. September 2002, 21:53: Message edited by: espeeman ]
Early summer when everything is fresh and green. Lol... also the season the Faller's backdrop I purchased is.... but I like that season best.
Late spring/early summer in Texas. The only thing I haven't been able to produce is the oppressive heat and high humidity that goes with it (and since the layout is in our bedroom, the wife won't let me ), but that could be because I live in western Colorado, where humidity is only found in the dictionary. In Texas, the seasons are spring, Hell, football, and a little ice on the roads. In Colorado, our seasons are spring, summer, Broncos football, and ski season. [ 07. September 2002, 21:50: Message edited by: friscobob ]
On a fourth of my layout it is green summer. The rest of it is in a drought since there is a definite paucity of green, anywhere!!! Hopefully, I'll be able to change that in the next few months!
My current layout is set in the late spring or summertime. Plenty of greenery on the trees. Although my next layout I may decide to go a slightly different direction as far as seasons are concerned. Maybe fall, or even winter.
late summer to mid-fall. Like the colorful trees even if there are more than 5000 pines against a few maples on my layout
Mid Autumn when the forests still are green but heavy with reds, oranges, yellows, and a touch of brown. My layout is about two weeks from peak color. It must be a coincident that this is my favorite time of year and the one I miss most since I moved to Florida.
Although I do love the Fall colors, I'm going with Spring. When everything comes out fresh and green. Here in Montana, we have two seasons: What it's like now. And what it will be five minutes later. BoxcabE50 [ 06. September 2002, 20:35: Message edited by: BoxcabE50 ]
The season of my layout under construction is early autumn, to fit in with my agricultural theme (many carloads moved during this period). Trees will be primarily green but there will be signs of the orange, brown, etc., colors soon to be.
It will be late spring to early summer of 2001 on my layout if the scenery seeds I've planted ever start to grow.
Living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, where it can snow (and has snowed) 8 months out of the year, I model mid summer, where everything is lush and green. Why would I need to "simulate" winter? When it's -30 degrees outside, the "warmth" of summer on my layout is refreshing. Jeff Augsburg & Concord R.R. (a fictional shortline in Central Illinois) http://www.pegnsean.net/~revnjeff
sounds like Denmark (green wet winter and a brown wet winter, sometimes white for a few weeks) right now the season on my layout is "raw benchwork", but eventually it will be summer Jesper
Wow, what a great question! Well, my two modules are set in early Spring in the Texas Gulf Coast around Corpus Christi. On my modules we've just had a F3 or 4 TORNADO! Because of this, we have very little vegatation, mostly broken and stripped trees, tree limbs with a few bushes. It's green but kind of stark, most of the buildings have been "repaired" but the trees haven't grown back yet...It's really quiet cool! [ 07. September 2002, 19:18: Message edited by: Maxwell Plant ]
Sounds like you're modeling Colorado too- most of the state west of the Continental Divide is either brown or black (bad drought)
I never thought about what season im modeling, but it seems likely now that i will have a nice green layout. But first i am going to have to do something about getting more track and laying it.
Like you Steve, I never really thought about the season on my railroad, but looking at the vegetation (what there is of it during a major rebuild) I guess it is summer
The insomniac from Oregon replies: Fall, mid October, which here is close to peak or just after. Ag traffic is still flowing, and it's just darn gorgeous between the dark green conifers, the umber brown oaks, and the pale yellow ash, poplar, and big leaved maples. Course, in my version, it's faily sunny, and not drab and rainy and bleak, as it often is just as the colors mature.
on the layout i'm starting, it will be early fall in the central us (a free-lance rock island layout in the central us), rolling hills, mixed conifers and deciduous trees, some green, some turning (more colorful on the hill tops, i believe would be the most realistic)
