One of the drawbacks of modelling a rural location is the number of trees needed to make a convincing landscape! There's only so much fun to be had twisting lengths of wire together and I find stippling an Artex/PVA mix onto wire armatures soon loses its magic:-) Despite all this I've managed to summon the enthusiasm to make a few more trees for Sherton Abbas! I used the same techniques as discussed in a previous blog entry http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1131/entry-17699-trees/ so there's little point repeating the process again. The right hand end of the layout has a fair number of trees that I've used to mask the exit of the private siding. In contrast the centre and left hand end of the layout were distinctly lacking in anything arboreal.

Following the maxim that "pictures are better than a thousand words", here are some photos of the layout before and after the new trees were added.

Left hand end of the layout.

Centre of the layout

Platform end

Overall views of layout from either end

I've just noticed the wine glass lurking under the bridge in the 2nd to last picture, goodness knows what the passengers waiting for the first train of the day will think!

I really must ensure that my next blog entry has a least one picture containing a train!

Best wishes

Dave