That Caboose ground throw is a dead giveaway. The trees are all Super Trees from Scenic Express. I model early spring, so about 50% of the trees are bare, painted in two shades of gray primer from spray cans. I spent a lot of time sifting all of the colors applied to the trees through a very fine tea strainer (grinding them down in an old blender). Some of the textures applied to the trees are: very finely ground foam, ground dead leaves, 2mm static grass, dried basil, ground up sponges for the dogwoods and other flowering trees, colored sand for the redbuds, and ground up dried chiles for budding maples. I spent a bit of time researching tree heights for a typical forest in NE PA, so most of the trees are in the 60-90 scale foot tall range, with some up to 120'. I think that these are quite a bit taller than most people use on their layouts. Here's a backside view through those woods looking down towards that tunnel. The blue stuff on the forest floor (ground sponge) is supposed to reproduce bluebells. Sorry for the late reply; had a long power outage from storms, and various internet outages.
That forest scene really looks great The trees have a really nice airy quality. May have to try a few supertrees myself. Thanks for the input.
What a wonderful scene. All the compliments you get are more than well deserved. And thank you for sharing your methods. I will definitely make a note of them for the day that I attempt a spring setting :-D
I borrowed this one from my album on another board. Scene is still not finished, but is nonetheless one of my favorite photos. Oops. Just realized this was in the N scale forum. Sorry. Not N scale.
N scale or not, that is a very nice industrial scene. If you poke around a bit you can still find factories with this feel in the full-scale world, where I live there is a metal plating company occupying an old factory that has a very similar look to it.
It is a model of the Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. There were a few suspension bridges in early railroads but they did not work out very well. The real bridge at the Royal Gorge supports autos but would probably never hold a train. The D&RGW used to run through the gorge under the bridge.
