Budget Rehab/reforesting project

[Gary B]

Happy New Year everyone! Let me start the year showing off a current work in progress, rehabbing and reforesting a part of my layout. My one mountainous corner I have avoided touching as I try to bring the rest of the layout closer to completion. Well that has taken longer then I expected and the mountain has started to look shabby to me. So at close out after Christmas sales I picked up a couple of hundred of those bottle brush trees, sprayed them green and sprinkled on course turf. I followed with flat clear coat, static grass and some WS flowers. Mixing up the colors made for some variety. So I started to do an overall re-do of the area using these trees as a starting point.
The first two pics are before I started. The next are after. Note the fence, it's nails and chicken wire. Crude but I like it.

 

[catt]

Looks good to me,and the fence looks rather capable of doing it's job.The only person you really have to please is yourself and it reads like your doing just that.

 

[BLACK KNIGHT]

Looks great! I love the little radio station up there!

 

[Rico]

Makes a huge differance!

 

[Gary B]

Thanks guys. By the way that radio station is an O/S Scale Plasticville item. I changed out the door to fit better with HO. I did part of the bottom of my canyon and used up another 50 trees! Pics of that to come. I've got to pick up another can of spray paint to spray some more trees.

 

[Photogdad]

The trees look great. Really makes a difference

 

[nickf06gli]

Looks great, where did you get the radio station?

 

[nickf06gli]

nm I just read the O scale. Good idea

 

[otiscnj]

Living in NJ, I have to love the Plasticville Turnpike Toll Booths.

The mountain looks much better!! I like the Noch trees. Adding trees does away with the nuclear blast zones of most Plywood Central's. That and ground cover...

 

[Gary B]

otiscnj - Yes I wish they made the toll booths in HO. I don't thing the large scale ones would adapt as nicely to HO as the radio station did. Not to mention They're hard to find.

No Noch trees - just the Christmas village kind with course turf attached by green spray paint. I was picking the trees up at $6 for 22 trees after Christmas.

 

[Gary B]

OK Here's my canyon area re-forested. More to do but the trees are in place. If you're wondering why the plastic shield in front of it that's because of our overly effervescent Labrador-a-saur puppy Sammy. The bottom of the canyon is only about 15 inches from the floor, and it seems model railroad landscaping material, Sammy finds delicious!

 

[wombat457]

Those tree's look great - something to seriously think about.