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JRamsden

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This weekend I turned my attention to adding some planted areas to my station, as per the prototype. Looking at images of Cranbrook station gave the most inspiration and it seemed to be among one of the most adorned locations on the line in terms of floral displays. Clearly someone took a lot of pride in keeping the station looking its best!

 

The border is oversized ballast applied grain by grain with tweezers. It took about 30 seconds for me to hate myself for taking this approach... but I think the result is ultimately pleasing. This seems to have been the approach utilised by Cranbrook station itself, albeit in 1:1 scale! Photos show small rocks acting as a rudimentary border. The earth is a sprinkle of Treemendus earth powder - I'm an absolute convert to this stuff. 

 

The rose trellis is made from very thin strips of styrene. The climbing rose is a combination of individual strands of rubberised horsehair, sprayed brown, and a scattering of Woodland Scenics' leaves. The roses themselves are large clumps of a pink scatter material I have had for absolute years. I think it was originally red as much of the pack has faded to white!  

 

All other plants are a mixture of Woodland Scenics products, flocks and poly fibre and rubberised horse hair. The tall yellow flowers are florists wire with more leaves stuck to them, topped with some yellow scatter. There are a few self-adhesive tufts of grass in there too. I'm pleased with the amount of variety in foliage I have here but am interested in learning more techniques and ways of using different materials to simulate specific plants and flowers. This should be particularly useful when it comes to wild embankments.

 

Anyway, enjoy some photos!

 

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All for now,

Jonathan

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On 18/01/2021 at 07:48, Mikkel said:

Lovely work. The climbing rose is particularly convincing, I think.

 

I am reminded of this photo of Lustleigh, which I keep returning to:  http://www.lustleigh-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/station-flowers.jpg

 

What a beautiful photo! Thanks for sharing. I thought I may have been going a bit too far when I added trailing foliage to the fence by the running in board, but this shows there truly is a prototype for everything :D

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