Ok so we have snow down and now to complete the scene along the back scene anyway we need some trees and foliage.

First the foliage goes in its a mix of clump foam and lichen. Lichen is a natural mods product that needs some excess leaf material removing before placing on the layout. This is all held in place with a layer of PVA glue.

In goes a layer of super trees each one trimmed and glued in place. Yes they are tall but so are trees in real life these are all 40-100ft tall trees which is perfect for the prototype location.

Then its out with the spray glue and another short snow shower in Ackerville and we have winterised trees.

There are still more jobs to do to finish this area, we need dummy turnout motors and some electrical boxes. Switch stands and then we need some ballast on the turnouts and static grass to represent those longer tufts of grass and scrub peaking through the snow.

Tomorrow we will probably tackle the dummy turnout motor first.