planting trees on Brett

Brett has had a rather temporary feel for some time. I've been enjoying playing.. er.. operating the layout but have been meaning to get around to a few jobs. All the scenic stuff has been rather loosely 'plopped' up till now and I figured it was time to start doing some of those jobs.

My other hobby has been keeping me occupied lately, but I just finished a rather intensive training course as part of my search for paid employment and needed some modelling relaxation -  a change from painting wargames figures.

I've made a bit of a list which, apart from sorting out the lighting and fascia, includes a number of scenic jobs - fixing the buildings and adding weeds to their bases, the track ends, weathering the chainlink fence, sorting out the vehicles and getting a couple of figures.. number one though was those trees.

I'm happy enough with the trees themselves. Although they a look a little 'generic pointy evergreen' that seems to be exactly what I was looking at on Streetview in the area where Brett is located. However, they needed properly fixing. 

Anyway - It only took half an hour or so with powerdrill and glue, some clipping of bases.. I added a few younger trees too - I forgot I had these in a bag in the loft - removed from an old N scale layout. 

Overall I am quite pleased with this area now.

I've started on one or two of the other little tasks, including adding some depth to the Northwest Lumber warehouse and sorting out track ends (bumpers and the like). What I have to remind myself now is to take it steady. Just do one job at a time and enjoy it, and not rush to get it all done and end up cutting corners.
(Can you tell that I was on a project management course?!)