| Finally uncovered a way you can meld your wife's | | | | of toil to design a tunnel and mountain structure in our |
| love of weeding and your love of model locomotives, | | | | backyards for a g scale design, a shrubby bush can |
| huh? As the young kids say these days, g scale is | | | | serve the exact same purpose with only minor effort |
| definitely the bomb! Your model locomotive hobby | | | | on our part. Nothing compares to making your g gauge |
| doesn't have to shut you down in the basement with | | | | train appear and disappear, appear and |
| the Morlocks anymore. Now it's just a question of how | | | | disappear-peek-a-boo...peek-a-boo.... |
| to do it? G scale model railroad layouts are all fairly | | | | Don't fight with the big stuff: If you have a completely |
| unique because everyone has to alter their track | | | | empty yard then this is not a consideration, but since |
| designs to match the individual idiosyncrasies of the | | | | most of us have things other than trains and grass in |
| spaces they are setup in. Here are some tips. | | | | your back yards, your best bet is to take these |
| Use the topography of your yard to help you make | | | | backyard landmarks and work with them. Waterworks |
| the choices you make in terms of track layout choice: | | | | can really add a soothing element to your garden |
| Weather and terrain should play into the decisions you | | | | railroad. A train track curled around a trickling stone |
| make about your g scale track design. If you live in a | | | | fountain or past a spitting stone boy can make for a |
| wet, cold climate and have flurries and rain as a fairly | | | | particularly eye catching feature. |
| constant cover for your yard, consider having a | | | | Add artificial accessories to your backyard layout: |
| covered track. If your yard is packed with fruit trees | | | | Finally, to really develop the full reality of our g scale |
| and vegetable patches you'll have fun snapping up | | | | model railroad designs we are well served by |
| ways that you can snake your track through it. The | | | | incorporating features like whistle stops and tunnels to |
| topographical idiosyncrasies of your outdoor train | | | | make our model train worlds as realistic and |
| space are the main limit to your g scale model railroad | | | | complicated as possible. The visualizing, building and |
| layouts. Try to harness climate and terrain to aid your | | | | detailing and weathering of these little landmarks and |
| locomotive configurations. | | | | features can be one of the most joyous and |
| Use the natural features of your outdoor area and | | | | rewarding aspects of a model railroad. It is much more |
| garden to increase the visual interest of your design: | | | | rewarding to spend in rainy Sunday afternoon detailing |
| One of the best ways of maximizing interest to our g | | | | and coloring a model train whistle stop than watching |
| scale model railroad setups is to use the hedges and | | | | reruns of I Love Lucy. |
| plants of our back yards to enhance the visual | | | | G gauge model trains are so popular right now, you |
| enjoyment of our track plan. | | | | shouldn't be surprised if your acquaintances are willing |
| Snaking a track behind a line of bushes or shrubs can | | | | to shell out cold hard cash to come over and see your |
| add visual excitement to our tracks by obscuring our | | | | setup. But the real reason to take part in this rewarding |
| eye line of the train and track. Where it might be a lot | | | | activity is that it is just good old fashioned fun! |