TABLE OF CONTENTS

In the beginning 4

Groundwork:

Foaming at the base 8 Covering some ground 14

Woodlands

Concocting a conifer 18 Handling hardwoods 22 Super-duper trees and more 26 Leaf me be 28 Finishing the forest scene 32

Rocks, Rivers & Ponds

Light rock for your easy lifting pleasure 36 Swamp thing 38 Down by the old mill stream, part 1 48 Down by the old mill stream, part 2 54

Rural Landscape

Fence me in 60 Tilling the soil 64

Roads

Do it in dirt 70 Rocky road adventure 74 Concrete streets from styrene sheets 78

Details

Flanger lift flags 82 Lay it on the line 84 Making the grade 88 Details make a difference 92

Suppliers and manufacturers 96

AUTHOR BIO:

Lou Sassi has been a model railroader since his pre-teen years in Saratoga Springs, New York. He started building his HO scale Boston & Maine West Hoosic Division Railroad, which was featured in July 1988 Model Railroader, 1999 Great Model Railroads, and Allen Keller’s Great Model Railroad video #23. In 2008, Lou dismantled the West Hoosic Division, and he and his wife, Cheryl, moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to be nearer their oldest son, Adam, his wife, Lynne, and their two children, Heather and Joshua. Lou is working on an On-30 layout based on Maine’s two-foot gauge Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad. The initial 2-foot by 6-foot module built for this endeavor is featured in the last three chapters of this book. Lou’s previous projects for Kalmbach Books include A Realistic HO Layout for Beginners, now out of print, Basic Scenery for Model Railroads, and How To Build and Detail Model Railroad Scenes, Vol. 1.