Recent progress on the layout includes adding additional layers of vegetation to existing scenery, adding new vegetation to bare scenes, and adding a few details here and there. The photo above shows a good example of what I have been working on recently. Some of the new "little touches" that really impact the realism of this scene include:
- The electrical box that houses the circuitry for the grade crossing signals
- Additional bushes and shrubs around the base of the hill
- Small tufts of dry grass in a few places
I still have to decide what to do with that bare patch of grass in the foreground. On the prototype, there is dense brush with a side street angling away. While the dense brush would obscure most of the scene, I am still contemplating adding a driveway and a few mailboxes to represent the street that leads to a few homes.
The next photo shows the same scene looking north towards the recently added rock cut that I described in another post. I have included a prototype photo to show how the modeled scene compares to the real thing:
Some of the work I have done in this area includes:
- Adding static grass to the hill above the rock cut
- Adding bushes, weeds and vines between the tracks and the trees
- Adding static grass down the center of the access road
- Adding the CSX "No Trespassing" sign from a digital photo
- Adding tress and bushes in front of the tracks
While this scene looks complete, if you look closely you can see bare ground extends past the grass covered areas. I still have lots of vegetation to add to this scene, plus I am working on a concept for adding high tension power lines that cross the tracks at the rock cut.
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