I too have used grape stalks for very effective trees. The stems of the bunch don't take long to dry out and can be gently stressed into whatever shape you want while they are drying. The bits where the grape joins the stem are useful for attaching a lump of foliage to, as you begin building your foliage coverage.

The trees look great as a backdrop and with the people and station details it brings that little bit of your layout to life.

Looking good. You obviously have a very steady hand to allow you to paint the station name. I usually print out mine on the computer. I lay it out, select the font and fill colours I want and print it out on paper in the reduced size I want. I usually start with a 10 size font using Ariel and Ariel Bold but other fonts can be used depending on the sign you are trying to replicate. Pictures can also be added during makeup. I seal the paper sign on both sides with photo varnish before glueing it to the prepared surface where the sign is to be mounted.

I also purchased some small conifers which are rather ordinary but useful for viewing from a distance but if you spray them with a spray adhesive and roll them in fine flock, they make a very acceptable poplar style tree.

the best scenery video I have seen

Around the 22 minute mark of your video behind your station loomed magic looked like a park land behind the station I really like it at that stage well done looking good.

Very lovely and classical.

Keep it up mate 👍👍👍👍

Purley sign great , coffee waste normally goes in the garden, now will have another use

Great modelling. Nice to see the platform coming along nicely with all the detailing you've done.

The optical illusion between the trees and the back scene looks very good. I nearly always get something from your videos. It is difficult, as you know, to work out what works with what so thank you for sharing the knowledge. Love the station sign and all the people. 😊

Thanks Tris for another awesome video! Love the way the trees behind the platform came out!

Hi Tris. All good advice and tips , nice to see you making progress on the lay out , looks grate. Keep it up. Stay healthy. Phil.

Very entertaining Tris 👏

Yet again another excellent video your station looks great, if you were at the Bristol Show Saturday I am sorry I missed your all the best Tom

another great video Tris! most coffee shops bag up their coffee grounds after use anyway, and offer them out for free for gardens (they're great for our roses!) but saving some for the model railway is not a bad idea! will create a great smell too! 🤔

Good stuff Tris, a bit of shape behind the station makes such a difference, love all the station details the platform really is coming together nicely and full of life Andy

Nice work Tris. The station and it's surrounds are really coming on now.

Great Video Tris great to see you use the hoover to pick up loose ballast to save it as we talked about in another video

Great tutorial Neal. i might borrow a few of your tips......cheer's Tony

The new additions to the station area look amazing great video thankyou

Great update Tris, really liking the tree line and station detail. If I might make one suggestion that is paint the exposed bit of wood holding the end of the back scene light blue so it blends in with the sky of the scene, just a little finishing touch.

Hi Tris 👍 excellent video my friend. Really enjoyed watching. Andy is a great guy very knowledgeable. I’m working on a project with him at the moment at the Warley MRC and I’ve picked up that much knowledge off him and the other guys over the last six weeks it’s been amazing. Keep safe and well Andy

Great video Tris. It is looking really good. 👍 I love your characters on the station.

It’s coming along now it looks pretty good

It's a bit late now but I'd been tempted to have an overgrown disused track by the platform indicating it was once a bay platform. Never mind your plan works well.

Watching this back today. Been using the WWS Static Grass applicator I just received and impressed with what it can do with 2 and 4mm grass. Now looking at your trees.

Like the station cat.

Lovely to watch and love your cat!

Great update

Really enjoyed this video, thank you! One point if I may - I thought used coffee would make great mud too - so I dried some used grounds out in the oven. At least, I thought I did. Once dry I used some and held it in place with diluted pva - it very quickly went mouldy! Just a word of caution! (For what otherwise feels like a good idea!)

Great video. I love the trees 🌲

Fantastic tris 👍💯👍

That station is looking amazing 👏

Great video Tris. Love the station area the trees, bushes and other details really brought it to life. I have certainly taken some inspiration from this. Cheers. - Nicholas.

lovely job

Perfect timing on this video! I'd just decided to mock up my industrial MicroLayout with some Code75 track and bam.... something to entertain myself along the way! Great video and some really nice progress Tris! Keep up the great work!

Hi Tris, amazing detail and the addition of the station clutter and people really brings it to life. Excellent modelling as always and I like the way you think it all through as you go..much the same here but you actually pull it off. Great video as usual, all the best, must head to you’re shop soon… Chris

Latest additions look awesome Tris 👍 Maybe some wreathing to the platform surface if you haven’t already planned to ? He has to be reading his Bradshaws Travel Guide 😉

For a false PERSPECTIVE use LARGE TREES at the FRONT with GRADUATED SMALLER TREES BEHIND the BIG TREES. Also, as an ex VW BEETLE SPRAYER, when spraying anything do the largest area1st and do it in one sweep taking your finger off the spray button when you have gone past. Move at a decent speed so as not to concentrate too much in one area, but not too slow that you apply too much. If your 1st paint went from left to right to do the next go Left to Right making sure you overlap your spray "MIST" onto your 1st sprayed area as I mentioned above and vice versa, same with smaller bits, don't do a quick spray then another, just do them in the same manner as the your first and subsequent Long areas. Well done though, the Big Trees look the dogs. T =)

I use dried tea bags for my soil - it has the same effect.

Station reminds me of Hanwell this has been restored to GWR condition ironically it’s on the new Elizebeth line so you got and old style station with modern class 345 units ,layout looks great

Excellent tree coverage. the lichin under the trees really makes them blend in. The station staff in grey looks great although we know that it should be black but it would weather. One criticism. the lamp hut as built are lmr (ex LMS). To make them truly WR or GWR the you must lose the ventilators on top as GWR didn't have them. Also the doors of the huts would probably be purple/brown and the lower parts of the huts would be either dark stone or black ( about six inches from the base). Hope this helps. Regards, Paul.

Hello Tris, how are you? This is another great video, I don't know how you can claim to be such an amateur at modeling since you turn out such professional results, Even watching you paint is pleasurable. Don,t worry, there is nothing weird going on here, It is just so nice to kick back and watch you work, I'm having a shed built in my garden so pretty soon I will be able to have my own railway. Once again, keep up the good work,

The coffee grounds are interesting, I used to work for a coffee shop and we would give our coffee grounds to a garden center as it makes really good compost, just wondering if there's been any problems with it over time

Very Nice. Noch have good Products. I am live 200 Kilometers away from Wangen im Allgäu. Noch have there al little Store with 2.Class Products .

Those trees look great - but I was thinking that you could put one or two trunks in there to suggest fallen trees, especially if there are Beech trees, which are notorious for suddenly just collapsing under their own weight. (so never camp under Beech trees). what was the little 0-6-0 engine near the beginning? I liked the look of that. Thanks for sharing! Those lamp hut kits come with the odd corrugated drums. These were specifically for paraffin/kerosene, which was the fuel for the lamps.

Superb work Tristram! could you maybe do another visit to your brother's layout? He's a great modeller too I reckon. Cheers, Joachim

I probably would have considered a disused siding behind the platform 🤔 As usual I've commented before the end..lol

Great stuff! Where are the backscenes from?

Hi layout looking good, when your wife goes (sorry if you've got a wife?) buy bunches of grapes, the stalks make fantastic trees big, small what ever size you require, cheap to 😁🤗

Don’t forget to put some telephone poles along the track

SEMAPHORE SIGNALLING TIPS. There are very complex rules for the actual positioning of signals. One of the fundamental rules for signal positioning is called "Sighting". i.e Can the driver see the signal from a distance, in relation to the maximum permitted speed of that line. This means the actual height of a signal has to take into consideration problems such as platform canopies and footbridges, which can obstruct the drivers view ! The semaphore signals for a passenger two track line, (as per your layout) would have been worked under what is called "Absolute Block" rules. Which means the BLOCK is ABSOLUTE. In other words only ONE train is allowed on each of the two tracks (Known as "Running Lines") at any time in the WHOLE AREA covered by that signal box, REGARDLESS of how many signals the box controlled !!! The MINIMUM requirement for an "Absolute Block" Post in signals, is a DISTANT followed by a HOME followed by a STARTER on each Running Line. The DISTANT is the most important signal and usually positioned about 0.5 to 1.0 miles before the box, dependent on the maximum permitted "Line Speed". The DISTANT tells an approaching train driver the situation throughout the Block now being entered. If at CLEAR this tells the Driver ALL following stop signals (the Homes & Starters) are CLEAR. If the DISTANT is at CAUTION, this tells the Driver one or more of the stop signals in this BLOCK is at DANGER. So he must bring his train under control and be prepared to STOP. The STOP signals positioned before the signalbox is passed are known as HOME signals. Those positioned beyond the signalbox are known as STARTER signals. The last STARTER signal provided is also known as the BLOCK signal, because this signal cannot be physically set to CLEAR, until the next signalbox along the line has given an electro-mechaical release. This being one of the most important safety features of the ABSOLUTE BLOCK system, so preventing more than ONE train being on any Running Line within the area covered by a signalbox !!!! This signalling system does allow a Goods train or even an ECS train to be shunted into sidings, so it is NO longer on a Running Line. Once this train is locked away, then it is possible to allow another train to enter the Block on an unoccupied Running Line. DAPOL SIGNALS ! The Dapol GWR lower quadrant signal, you have installed, being a commercial ready made product cannot take into consideration the problems of sighting and therefore its height. Further the Dapol wiring system provided, does not allow for the signal to be "interlocked" with other signals & points (as it has to be in real life), or even allow for a reliable method of displaying on a control panel, what position the signal is in, possibly using LED's !!! Further as you have "buried" the signal baseplate in ballast, this will present a problem, as the mechanisms in these models are notoriously unreliable, so extracting the model for maintenance or replacement will mean digging up the ballast !!! Another warning: DO NOT screw up the plastic nut under the baseboard more than finger tight, or it will break the whole mechanism away from the baseplate !!! LAMP HUTS. Lamp huts ! The Wills Kit model you have is a GWR Corrugated Iron design dating from the 1920's, so even in BR days was normally painted GWR cream with GWR red oxide coloured fittings. Lamp Huts were to store the lamp oil, paraffin, spare signal lamps, & other inflammables required around a station. This model design is of a type found on platforms, so if weirdly mounted at the track side would require a concrete base to resist the building rusting away ! Only ONE lamp hut was normally present at smaller stations ! Further there are specialised railway paint ranges that provide exact (British) railway colours, such as Phoenix Precision Paints, Chelmsford Essex, & "Howes" of Oxford who produce the "Railmatch" range, both have websites !!!!!!!! Happy Modelling.

gardin wire is good for making trees have a go /I am making them in 0 gauge

I have Just started my layout boards are in place around spare room so need bridge for door way its really big ? But feel I need advice ? Planing for two years Just started fixing track down.

Comments on most videos: cool Comments here: hello tris, I loved the video all the scenery you did was great! I could never do that. Also how did you get the hotwire foam cutter? I've looked everywhere but can't find one, anyway I loved the video as I always do and your railway is amazing. Thanks for uploading for us all!

Really good Tris, I like the way the platform sweeps round as well, any thoughts on what's going in front? another platform maybe? Also, where did you purchase your polystyrene cutter from?

Hi Tris! Great video as always. I have a question (am hoping it hasn't already been mentioned and I have missed it). Is your layout set up for DC or DCC?

Can you tell me what model people you are using please they look good quality

All good Tris. But as I always say, pick detail out in enamel. Should not then need recoating

I’m beginning to think that all model railway guys are failed body builders as you all use the plastic covered home weights 😂 Have pulled your leg I must say the layout is coming along nicely you must be very happy with your progress 👍

A copy of Great Western railway locomotive spotter guide.

What is the name of the glue that you used Tris.

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dont use coffee! it will encourage mould if it becomes moist!!!