Scenery for Your Model Railroad

Create a more realistic scene behind and around your model railroad! This book shows you how, from ground cover and rockwork, to trees, water, and more. Learn the finishing touches that give a railroad character. Includes photos of models and prototype scenes for inspiration.

Author: Mike Danneman
Perfect-bound softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 0 pages; ISBN: 9780890243237

Professional illustrator and artist Mike Danneman is a frequent contributor to Model Railroader magazine and is a former Art Director of Trains magazine. He has written or co-authored five other books and is a co-photographer with his brother Tom of the annual Trains at Work calendar, also published by Kalmbach Books. Mike lives in Arvada, Colorado, and is well known for his N scale Denver & Rio Grande layouts.

Acknowledgments 4
Introduction 5

The function of a backdrop 7
Considering the scene 13
Constructing a backdrop 19
Painting the backdrop 25
Moving to the tabletop 43
Modeling rocks 49
Ground textures 55
Trees 61
Water 67
Blending scenery 73