Well it is Friday the 13th and so I am updating the website before something superstitious happens.

The mountain village has been a methodical if not a slow process which has been worth the effort to the overall affect of the scene and the layout. You know I am not trying to pursue a particular place or scene in Switzerland just a general affect is what I am after. I believe it has been accomplished, at least for my purposes.

The structures for the scene  were produced from kits, and or scratch built as needed. Let me give a run down on the structures. Plastic kits from Kibri were used for the two houses, Church and mountain cafe. Thomas Oswald kits were used for the cattle scale and the outside bakers oven. Again I have to mention that the MBZ Oswald kits are spectacular in their affect. Built from Scratch are the Castle and the Barn next to the cattle scale. The fence was produced from setting individual posts and using strand wire for the fencing. That was fairly easy and gave a great look to the scene.

For the greening up process I used several different methods and products. Most notable are products from HEKI, Silflor and Scenic Express. When things called for a nice thick field of wild grass the HEKI grass mats are great; basically they are 14” x 8” mats of fiber with an overabundance if static material attached. There is so much material that a lot of the static grass comes off in the container which you can use in the Noch Grass Master. I also used their fiber mats with green foam attached for vines and bushes. Silflor products were used for things like vines and flowers and also for the green static grass in the cow pasture. In the pasture I applied some of the praire tufts first and the static grass to simulate where cow patties had over fertilized the soil. Silflor introduced a new product for flowers which I utilized around the mountain cafe walking path. They really finished off that small scene.

Electrically speaking there are lights in the buildings. They are small bulbs from Brawa that have been toned down with resistors so they are not so bright. For the power I ran from the main bus to a new bus block under the scene, then feed the wires from there. The new bus was connected to my Central Station using a Viesmann digital control module which was placed on the Bergun Station track plan page. Works like a charm.