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An Introduction to Model Train Scenery - Your Ultimate Beginners Guide

Model train scenery is probably the second most enjoyable thing about model trains, with the intricacies of the engines and cars being number one and layout in the number three spot. While you would do an initial layout plan first, it's the scenery that makes your creation come to life.

It isn't just trees and landscaping that we are talking about, but all kinds of different ways to decorate you layout ideas. While it's true that you can spend the time to make your own model train scenery, buying plastic plants to tear apart for trees and shrubs, or snagging a toy car or figurine once in awhile from your kids.

You may even think about recycling things out of the garbage like tin cans and cardboard boxes, cleaning them out and painting them to suit your needs. While these are all good ideas, many home made model train scenery creations aren't going to be the same size and scale as the model train, and will look out of place.

Unless you are quite skilled at painting and modeling, you will never get the same quality of detail as you will from products that are specifically made for the train hobbyist. The product and accessory options are far better than anything you can come up with in many cases.

Weight bearing structures like bridges and trestles should be purchased prefabricated, to ensure their durability. It's not just that though, just in holiday accessories you have carolers, musical clock towers, little lighted lamp posts, all that look just like the real thing, just smaller.

The people and vehicles of pre-constructed model train scenery are proportionate to the size of the train, meaning that the people figurines look like they could fit inside the train cars, not on them. Many mechanisms work in conjunction with the train's electrical wiring and can be operated remotely from the command center.

When picking model train scenery, it is important that it's fluid with the model train layout. If you're layout has trains that transport goods, and you have more of a flat town or city layout, you won't want a bunch of trees, mills and other forest related items.

You would want an oil refinery, some warehouses, maybe some semi tractor-trailers. If you are going with a country setting, then you would want grain silos, maybe a windmill, some farm buildings and animals.

If you just have to work with your hands, or have a sense of making it on your own, there are many model train scenery assortments where the pieces are prefabricated, but you get to put it together yourself. This way the scenery retains its detail, and you still get to feel like you did it yourself.

You can find model train scenery from a wide range of places, both on the Internet and at many local hobby shops. It might be a wise idea to visit online shops first, even if you may have to order products online, because they can answer many of your questions as well as show you what they do have in stock.

Then you can see firsthand the detail that goes into some of these items.

About the Author

Clint Spille is a model trains enthusiast who enjoys blogging about the World's Greatest Hobby. Stop by his blog where you can read his many articles on the model railroading hobby or watch the videos he provides on topics such as toy model trains, model railroad track plans and much more!

Woodland ScenicsWS 928 Mountain Valley Scenery Kit $94.75 Bring your train set to life The Mountain Valley Scenery Kit is great for modelers who want to add scenery and build a tunnel on a new or existing 4 x 8foot layout. Designed for HO scale and easily adapts to N and O scales. Kit includes the materials instructions and patterns needed to add trees grass weeds rocks mountains a tunnel ballast and more. Over 24 products are included...even paint and glue Easy to follow stepbystep instructions. Train set track buildings and vehicles not included. Warning Choking hazard not intended for children under 3 years old.

Scenery $8.99 Scenery

Woodland Scenics WS 928 Mountain Valley Scenery Kit $76.53 Bring your train set to life! The Mountain Valley Scenery Kit is great for modelers who want to add scenery and build a tunnel on a new or existing 4 x 8-foot layout. Designed for HO scale and easily adapts to N and O scales. Kit includes the materials, instructions and patterns needed to add trees, grass, weeds, rocks, mountains, a tunnel, ballast and more. Over 24 products are included...even paint and glue! Easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Train set, track, buildings and vehicles not included. Warning Choking hazard not intended for children under 3 years old.

Woodland Scenics WS 927 Ho Scenery Kit $63.78 This kit is for beginners. Learn terrain and landscape techniques. Build a 10 x 18 HO scale diorama. Over 20 products included. Display an engine or piece of rolling stock (train not included).

Woodland ScenicsWS 927 Ho Scenery Kit $78.96 This kit is for beginners. Learn terrain and landscape techniques. Build a 10 x 18 HO scale diorama. Over 20 products included. Display an engine or piece of rolling stock (train not included).

Scenery from Train Between Aleppo and Lattakia, Syria, Middle East $19.99 Christian Kober Scenery from Train Between Aleppo and Lattakia, Syria, Middle East - Photographic Print

HO Scale Thomas & Friends Sodor Scenery Switch Tower $48.84 This hand-painted HO scale Thomas & Friends Sodor Scenery Switch Tower is for railroading adventures as big as your imagination. This Switch Tower model features a durable plastic construction.Switch Tower Sodor SceneryPerfect for HO Scale Thomas & Friends Sodor Scenery layoutRecommended for ages 8 years and olderMaterials: PlasticModel: 45237

Scale $11.99 Track Listing: 1. Something Isn't Right, 2. Movers and the Shakers, The, 3. Moving Like a Train, 4. Harmonise, 5. We're in Love, 6. Birds of a Feather, 7. Those Feelings, 8. Down, 9. Movie Star, 10. Just Once, 11. Wrong

Scenery Techniques for Toy Trains (Paperback) $28.81 For toy train operators looking to add scenery and dimension to their layouts, this book offers simple solutions. It explains how to use foam as a scenery base and how to shape it into mountains and rivers. Step-by-step photographs and instructions illustrate techniques for adding streets, accessories, and even a working drive-in theater.

Bachmann G Scale White Christmas Train Set $565.9 This Bachmann G Scale White Christmas Train Set electric train set includes power pack and speed control. This ready to run train set comes with steam locomotive with operating headlight and much more.Made by Bachmann TrainsModel: 90076Materials: Plastic and metalG Scale ready to run electric train set includes 4-6-0 steam locomotive with operating headlight, smoke and speed synchronized soundIncludes tender with wood load, combine car with operating door and lighted interior and coach car with lighted interiorOval track is 98 inches long x 51 inches wideFeatures power pack and speed controllerOne 1.9 volt battery required (not included)Recommended for ages 8 and older

Rail Master HO Scale Electric Train Set $160.68 This Lifelike HO Scale 'Rail Master' Train Set features over 100 pieces including utility poles, railroad and street signs. This toy train set features a four unit Santa Fe Diesel Locomotive with working headlight.Brand: Rail MasterHO Scale Electric Train SetOval trackIncludes Santa Fe Diesel Locomotive with working headlightOver 100 pieces including utility poles, railroad and street signsPower-loc terminal rerailer power track for easy alignmentNo batteries requiredRecommended for ages 8 years and olderDimensions: 47 inches high x 38 inches wideModel: 433-8608

Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders: The Complete Photo Guide $14.08 This book covers simple techniques needed to make realistic scenery for a layout of any size or scale. Each chapter includes step-by-step color photos, illustrations, and diagrams that demonstrate the basic steps to adding prototypical scenery elements to a layout. Features a variety of "one evening" projects.

Bachmann N Scale Frontiersman Train Set $215.38 This Bachmann N Scale Frontiersman Train Set includes many old-time toy train cars. This electric train set comes with easy to assemble nickel silver E-z track.Made by Bachmann TrainsModel: 24006Materials: Plastic and metalIncludes American 4-4-0 steam locomotive and tender, old-time water tank car, old-time box car, old-time gondola car, old-time flat car and old-time bobber cabooseOval track is 34 inches wide x 24 inches long of nickel silver E-z trackAlso comes with power pack and speed controllerRecommended for ages 8 and older

How to Build Realistic Model Railroad Scenery (Paperback) $33.89 One of model railroading`s best-known scenery modelers offers new techniques for adding realism to a layout of any size or scale. Featuring today`s newest products and equipment, this third edition of one of Kalmbach`s top-sellers will attract modelers with contemporary images of diesel locomotives and urban settings, plus updates to Dave`s trademark scenery ?recipes.? Hundreds of photographs bring the techniques to life and make it easy for modelers to get started quickly. ? Includes new chapters on Western scenery and desert modeling, and city scenery and urban settings ? Ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced modelers planning a layout

HO scale train layout model lamppost lamp $48.74 hight quality HO scale model lamppost lamp for HO layout, hand made. All style can be 6V, 12V and 16V to meet the customer need

Bachmann N Scale Explorer Train Set $186.29 This Bachmann N Scale Explorer Train Set includes easy to assemble E-z track that snaps together in no time. This electric train set features power pack and speed controller.Made by Bachmann TrainsModel: 24008Materials: Plastic and metalIncludes Powered EMD F9 diesel locomotive with operating headlightFeatures unpowered A unit F9 diesel locomotive, single dome tank car, refrigerator car, covered hopper car, plug door box car, flat car with containers and off-center cabooseOval track is 34 inches wide x 24 inches long of nickel silver E-z trackFeatures 12 telephone poles, 24 railroad and street signs, power pack and speed controllerRecommended for ages 8 and older

Bachmann G Scale Thomas and Friends Percy Large Train Set $480 This Bachmann G Scale Thomas and Friends Percy Large Train Set includes Percy the Small Engine and two troublesome truck train cars. This large G Scale train set features power pack and speed controller.Made by Bachmann TrainsModel: 90069Materials: Plastic and metalG ScaleReady to run electric train set includes Percy the Small Engine with moving eyesFeatures Troublesome Truck 1 and Troublesome Truck 2 engine carsOval track is 64 inches wide x 51 inches long when assembledComes with power pack and speed controllerRecommended for ages 8 and older

Scenery Of Farewell $6.49 Scenery Of Farewell

Train $10 Train

This Train $14.29 This Train

The Train $8.99 The Train