Scenery: Freight Depot

This past Sunday I started work on the scenery for where my Model Power ‘Freight Depot’ will be residing. I was hoping to originally start my scenery work with the area around North Western Terminal (the parking lot and surrounding areas), but my order for my sidewalks did not arrive on Saturday like it was originally scheduled for. So instead I elected to start on another part of the layout. I already had the ‘Freight Depot’ in hand and knew where I wanted it to go and it would be a good location to test out my scenery skills (it has been a few years since I played around with any of the Woodland Scenics materials).

First I applied some Brown craft paint as a base coat for the scenery.

Second, I laid out some Brown Fine Ballast to be used as my dirt roads. I plan on using this Brown Fine Ballast for all my dirt roads in the Industrial section of my layout.

Third I sprinkled on some Fine Turf in Earth color (trying to avoid the road as much as possible), although a hand held vacuum comes in handy to vaccum up the area.

Finally I srprinkle on some Static Grass Flock in Harvest Gold over some of the areas that had the Fine Turf. This was the first time I got to use my Static Grass Applicator from PECO and it was quite easy to use.

All in all I am quite happy on how this section turned out. My plan is to model my Industrial section all of the same way (so this was a nice test area). Once I get to actually assembling the buildings and getting them placed on the layout, I will be going back and adding some bushes and shrubs and other pieces of scenery. What I did above was more of just my base for scenery.

Hopefully my next post we will get to tackle the area around North Western Terminal.

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