Scenery Tips from Lou Sassi
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One of Lou Sassi’s good friends is Pete Darling, who joins him in this video. Pete has helped Lou out on his Western Hoosic Division model railroad and is also a member of their four-person modeling group known as the Tree Group. Today, he is going to show some of the techniques they have developed over the past five years in tree construction and scenery.
To make the trees, they use natural materials such as wild oregano, wild spirea, a commercial spirea, a pepper grass material, deer moss or sphagnum moss, and a commercial buffing pad. Pete and Lou put a module together to demonstrate some of their tree and scenery techniques for this video. Some of their trees were put together a little bit differently, but they will give demonstration on the materials Lou shows and how they make the trees with them.
One tree is made using the pepper grass over a straight armature. It gives the look of an aspen or a poplar tree. The next is the wild oregano applied to an armature to create its look, followed by an evergreen-looking tree using the commercial buffing pad. The next tree uses the same technique built over a straight armature using the deer moss or sphagnum moss. Finally they make a meadow sweet tree, which is used straight from picking out of nature, making a very effective tree. For more layout scenery tips or tips for creating realistic landscapes, visit the Model Railroad Academy website.
This is a good friend of mine, Pete Darling, who's been helping me with my own layout and who's also a member of our four-person tree group. Today we're going to show you some of the techniques we've developed over the last five years both in tree construction and scenery. These are the materials we use to make trees with. This is a wild oregano. This is spiraea or meadowsweet. It's also called wild spiraea. This is a commercial spiraea. This is a peppergrass material. This is a deer moss or sphagnum moss. And a commercial buffing pad. Okay. Here is a module that we put together to demonstrate some of our techniques on the trees and our scenery techniques. Each of these trees is put together a little bit differently. I'll show you some examples of the materials Lou just showed you and how they're applied to the particular trees that give us a construction. This very first tree here is made using the peppergrass and it's over a straight armature and it gives you the look of a aspen or a poplar tree. This next tree is we've applied the oregano, wild oregano to the tree and to the armature and created the tree of that look. The next tree is a evergreen tree using the buffing pad, the commercial buffing pad. The following tree here is built in the same technique over a straight armature. And that's using the deer moss or sphagnum moss. Over here, we have a meadowsweet tree that's used just as it comes from the way we pick it and color it. And it makes it a very effective tree.
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