Use these links to take you to various sites for all the information you should need to create realistic looking scenery.
Adverts For The Layout : This is a great site for prototype period adverts for your lineside. Not easy to come by normally, especially as good as these.
Adding Colour To Your Plaster Rocks : A good article with pictures.
Adding Texture To Wood : A good article that lends itself to texturising other materials, like card.
Backdrops : Make and paint them yourself with the help of this article.
Backdrops : Buildings and pictures for you to download and use as backdrops.
Background Scenery : A very good article from the Stockton Modeller site on making your own scenic backgrounds.
Backscenes : In ten foot lengths, reasonably priced too.
Backscenes : Photographic backdrops from TBBC.
Backscenes : From Cheshire Railway Modellers.
Backscenes : Panoramic photographs from Brad Templeton.
Cliffs : Another way of getting that rugged landscape. Nice article with pictures.
Clouds - Making Them : A USA article but still meaningful for the 00 gauge modeller.
Designing The Landscape : A very good article by Stephen Chapman of the Australian Model Railway Association Incorporated.
Enamel Paints : If you are fairly new to using this type of paint then this article by Chris Rabson is well worth reading.
EZLine : For simulating telephone, electric lines. All suspended ropes, lines. Looks very good.
From T&R Models : A nice section on scenery, includes bridge work and ballasting. Tried and tested methods with illustrations.
Fencing : Chainlink for HO scale. Very nice too.
Garages To Model : Pictures of old garages that are just crying out to be modelled on the period layout.
Gates & Fencing : Fancy work here, intricate HO scale.
Grass Clumps : A good article from the Armorama people.
Grass - Heki : A nice article on using this well known product.
Grass - Wild : For small areas from Noch. This is a Walthers link for this product.
Guide To Scale Colour : A helpful article getting your colours just right.
Hard Landscaping : Great article with photographs on one mans way of creating the base landscape.
Hedges - Horsehair : A very effective technique.
Landscape Modelling : Very good article from a UK site.
Making A River : Beautifully illustrated article on how to make this great addition to any layout.
More on Modelling Water : Another mans ideas from across the big pond. The names may be unfamiliar but the ideas are there.
Painting Your Population : Some excellent teaching techniques here for getting the best from your painting efforts.
Plaster - Working With It : A good article from a UK site.
Resin - Painting : A very good article from Model Railroad Craftsman.
Retaining Walls : Very nice, 2mm and 4mm from International Models.
Road Signs : Old road signs that will set your period road works off nicely. A touch of nostalgia for older drivers who may be looking.
Road Signs : All the road signs the modern layout will ever need from the Highway Code. Resize them for your scale.
Rocks : Made from upholstery foam. An excellent article with great results.
Rockwork : Colouring the rocks you have made. Get them looking right.
Roofing Shingles For S & O gauge : Very nice material here and very easy to use.
Route Markers : From around the world but mainly USA, past and present.
Shop Signs : Great fast food signs for your shops.
Silflor : This is an excellent material for grass, looks very effective.
Static Grass : An excellent article on using this great product from Noch for very natural looking grass, smooth and rough.
Static Grass : Another good article on getting the best out of this material.
Stonework - Painting : A good article from Model Railroad Craftsman.
Telegraph Poles : These are a for sale item but good photographs if you fancy making your own.
Telegraph Poles : Ready strung with cables. New idea and very neat. HO.
Thoughts From Australia : Nice photographs with information on what is available commercially.
Tips & Tricks : Many ideas from a Wargamers site that will fit in nicely with our model rasilways.
Trackside Signs : Signs for the modern layout.
Trees : Another easy to follow article on how to make trees using sea foam, a commercial product which may seem expensive but has enough stuff in it to make a considerable number of trees and bushes. Trees : Yet another article on making trees. The wire method for deciduous trees and wire and string for conifers. Trees : Make your own from sea moss, supplied by International Models. Trees : Ready made from Timberline Scenery, very nice models too. Tree Shapes - British : This is to help those modellers who want to be a bit more meticulous in their tree modelling efforts. Make them the correct shape. Nice site as well. Trees : Another very good article on this popular subject. This time using postiche for the foliage. Trees : A pdf file download on making your own trees. Trees : More about making trees. Puffball ones this time for a forest or background. Good article and pictures. Trees : Yet another way of making trees. This time with scouring pads, quite effective too. Maybe not the best in the world but fine for the back of the layout. Trees USA Style : A PDF format download, courtesy of Model Railroader. Not just another method of making a particular type of tree but also a good article on colours, shapes, positioning etc. Vines To Buildings - Adding : A good article from Model Railroad Craftsman. Weathering Doctor : A good article from Model Railroader. Weathering : Using cheap children's powder paints. Weathering : The art of. Weathering : Advice on simulating age, deterioration and the distressing of your models. Weathering : Another useful article on this favourite subject.
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