Scenery?! Well, landforms at least..

 For a total change of pace earlier this fall, some landforms were built up.

I'm using the cardboard strips and glue shell method, using red rosin paper as the top layer of shell.

The cardboard strips are hot glued together, so management has been saving corrugated cardboard boxes for recycling into the strips.

I started in the corner near Quantico, with the thought that there are no plans to change the track in this area, signals are already installed and the sharp corner is pretty obvious.

I used my normal brown latex paint to go over the red paper. Some additional tweaking will be necessary, but for a first attempt, acceptable results were obtained. 

I put another of these in Hamilton, to help hide the gap between the backdrop and the homasote that serves as subroadbed.

Some painting touchup is needed..

And here is an overview shot of the area south of South Milford. You can see the cardboard peeking out from the form closest to the camera.

As the hot glue is very stringey, I recommend covering you track with paper masking that you will find in the painting tool aisle at your local home improvement center. Makes clean up simple as the paper that protected you track can just be thrown away or recycled, depending on your desires.

A key consideration is using enough cardboard strips to support the overall landform shape you want.

A few more pictures on the website gallery - richmond-terminal.org

Eventually, there might even be some ground cover and trees planted, but let's no go crazy.