Has anyone ever made temporary winter scenery on their layout? It seems most layout scenery is set in the summer, spring and fall. Mine is summer, but I would like to make it "winterized" for the holiday season. I have some ideas but have not done anything yet. I want to be able to restore "summer" easily. Any thoughts, suggestions and ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks !
-Tom
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Hi Tom, One of the things I did to facilitate this layout, which I did for FAO Schwarz, in NYC, being changed-over from a wintery setting to a Spring/Summer seasonal appearance, which the store asked of me since they decided to go, for the first time, with a year-round layout, not just a Holiday layout, was to make these snowy roofs.
They are plates of 1/4" or 3/8" material cut to be precise inserts onto the roofs, with the snow having been glued down permanently onto the roof inserts.
The snow may look fluffy, but it is quite permanent. When I changed the panorama over to fair-weather, I removed the snowy inserts and had the original non-snowy black roofs which are part of the buildings.
When it was time to change the layout over to winter again...
…. on went the snow-encrusted roofs.
FrankM, Layout Refinements
Moonson, What a great idea. Thank you so much. I will do that. I think I will be able to make some additional snow covered insert sections for other areas of the layout too. Of course AFTER I posted this topic I did a "snow" search with the OGR Forum search tool. There are some other temporary solutions that came up. None mentioned the one you did. Thank you for the great idea and pictures.
-Tom
I've done it a few times for photos used for Christmas cards. I use some of the coarser "snow" so it's easier to vacuum up afterwards:
Never tried to cover the entire layout with faux-snow, but depending upon the medium used, it could be a dreadful mess.
PD
Tom Q Fan, Thank you for the kindness of your reply. I am very glad you found my idea useful to you. Have fun!
FrankM
Frank, Thank you for the great ideas. I have never seen that solution and it is just great. It got me thinking that I could probably make some other snow/winter covered sheets/mats ( Just like the roof ones) cut to size and place them in the other areas, like the freight yards and roundhouse. I have open areas that I could cut the material to fit, pre cover it and just place the mat down. Then could use it each year. Will use the coarse snow in only few sections to kind of tie it all in.
Many thanks, again for the great ideas and pictures.
-Tom
PD, thanks for your ideas and pictures will incorporate that with Franks ideas.
-Tom
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