Quicky I was at the club layout the other month, and I found myself feeling a very dry feel. Everything that I looked at felt very very arizonian, even the parts that might of supposed to be wet. Now perhaps I was just thirsty, but I think this might be something to look into. We spend alot of time worying about water and moisture, and little about dryness. So the question is: how do we remedy a dry feel and make it feel less deserty and more temperantual? Thanks
I've found that ground foam and lichen can fade over time. It's best to "redust" once you start noticing color changes. It helps "liven" things up a little. The only draw-back is after a few years, you can start having a huge ground foam build-up. That's not really a bad thing, trees and bushes along the R.O.W. tend to do the same thing in the real world anyway. [ 17 April 2001: Message edited by: Maxwell Plant ]
Last time I did a rain dance I got rain all right! A fine showering of light grit Sand!!! I once prayed for snow and all I got was the finger award presented to me by the good people up in Sunland Control. I guess this could directly relate to dust accumulation, as that does begin to look like a dustbowl effect. But if you look at the dry southwest, there are places that look very green, such as the creek beds and their Cottonwoods. I think that if there is water on a southwestern layout(like a swimming hole) then there should be some sort of heavy vegetation nearby. Even around the ranchers mud tanks and manmade lakes(we call them tanks were I come from) the mesquites and the scrubb oak trees are well grown.
I feel your pain, brother Benny- here in my part of Colorado, if we get 9 inches of rain in a year, it's a wet year I want to think that somewhere I read an article on spraying glycerine on your ground foam. Mix up some with water, then use a spray bottle & apply it to the trees & grass. Also, I'd make sure the layout is not exposed to the sun, and make sure the swamp coolers are running well in the summer (that's what we use up here for our clubhouse). If you use an air conditioner, a humidifier would work well, not only for the model foliage but the 1:1 scale people. Good luck!
