desert scenery?

[Anonymous]

what are some of the stuff i should by for an n scale desert western style layout? thankyou for the help!!![:)]

[lyctus]

Keith, You can't do much better than grab a copy of MR March and April and drool over the results acheived by Pelle Soeborg, a bloke who lives in Scandanavia and seems as though he has spent his life in the southern deserts of the US ! His work, and illustrated techniques in the April edition, is fantastic. So real it takes a double take to confirm it is model scenery and not the real thing.

[hminky]

Don't look at models for modeling. Look at pictures of the area and try to duplicate the area itself. I model California and live in Delaware. I use pictures of the real thing to develop scenery. That is how Pelle Soeburg did his scenes and one reason why his looks like American Desert. He wasn't modeling a model. Here is my California scenery:



My mom is originaly from Gilroy, California and tells me it looks like south of there. That is where my attempts at scenery represent. Go out and look at nature. Don't look at models and model modeling. Adapt materials to look like nature.

Just a thought
Harold

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lyctus

Keith, You can't do much better than grab a copy of MR March and April and drool over the results acheived by Pelle Soeborg, a bloke who lives in Scandanavia and seems as though he has spent his life in the southern deserts of the US ! His work, and illustrated techniques in the April edition, is fantastic. So real it takes a double take to confirm it is model scenery and not the real thing.

Ditto on that. Pelle's work is amazing and his attention to subtle detail is amazingly not overbearing.

Tom

[Anonymous]

Harold, your scenery does look like Gilroy. I've driven through there many times between Northern and Southern California. I remember it well - it was the only speeding ticket I ever got. In Gilroy!