As a suggestion I follow Joe Fugat e's methods. It is all about color and texture! By all means get his DVD's on scenery. if not all of them, for they all have great information. Take a photo of a scene you like, then take it indoors under your layout room lighting, that is what you want to duplicate! Remember deciduous trees have larger leaves and are brighter, conifers have fine needles and are darker. Color and texture are the keys to a realistic scene. Enjoy the learning curve! John
Commercial trees often don't truly represent actual tree colors & shading and tend to be very bright. Scenery tends to fade over time so maybe he planned on that and purposefully went with the brighter colors. The trees behind look the same to me except further away.
Overall I'd have to say it's a great looking railroad from the details and other items shown. Much nicer than some layouts and photos I've seen. Great bridge!
Personally, I'd just be glad to have ANY scenery on my layout right now! Getting kinda tired of looking at naked track. Need to get away from this computer & nitpicking and back to modeling.
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Roger Huber
The trees down in the creak bed look funny all one color and the green is so bright for autumn. I am not a tree expert but you can see how much better it blends behind the train.