Winter scenes

[Anonymous]

Does anyone here have any kind of winter scene on there layout. I think it would look really cool with the buildings and locos covered in a nice fresh coat of snow or frost in the windows or other aspects of a winter scene.

Just thought this would be a good subjuct to try to cool me down out here in the middle of the desert.

Brock [:)]

[Anonymous]

Hey Brock,
I posted this Friday http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40119
It's about snow, I have yet to put the iceicle ( however that's spelt) but it looks great now. With the spray on snow it is easy to remove too.[(-D][{(-_-)}]

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of using snow also on my layout. Snow would make it look cool, frozen lakes and ponds.... creeks..... that kind of stuff would be cool in my opinion..

[jon grant]

Whilst not American HO, here's mine.







It does occasionally see some American visitors






I also got roped in to do the scenics on a 'shoebox layout' challenge




Jon

[Anonymous]

beutiful, is that a night shot with the CSX? What did you use for snow, and how did you keep the balence in it, not too much, not too little, experimentation?[bow][bow][tup][tup]

[trainchris]

jon,very nice work more pics please[:D] I can't wait till I get to that point in my layout to do my own winter scene. you don't see to many layouts with snow. again very nice work!

[roadrat]

Jon
you should submit some of those pics to MR there definitly magazine quality.


bill

[grandeman]

Very nice pics, Jon!

One thing that's kept me from doing snow scenes is a concern for dust in the typical basement. Over time, I'm concerned that the snow might not look so good with light coat of dust. We're thinking of doing a snowy diorama someday though.

[Anonymous]

So what keeps the rest of you from doing this is it hard to do or does no one really ever think of doing this. I can just imagin a nice blue Conrail engine with a fresh coat of snow. That reminds me of growing up in northren New York.

[Anonymous]

Jon:

Those photos of yours--and more of them--really do belong in MR. Truly beautiful work, and very convincing! Doesn't matter one bit whether it represents European or some other modeling--great work is great work!

I like winter scenery myself because it tends to highlight the trains and accessories a whole lot more, and it makes tree-building a whole lot easier. I'm working on a Z scale "winter theme" layout at the present time, and have constructed winter scenes in the past in N, O, and Large Scale, as well. All of the layouts I've built with a winter theme have permanent snow and such; not just a temporary layer of stuff just dusted on.

I generally follow the techniques presented by Dave Frary in his excellent "Realistic Scenery" book (available from Kalmbach).