Denton Homesteads
One area in Denton that hasn’t received much attention is between the tracks and the backdrop. In these small agricultural towns, residential homes were often found close to the railroad tracks. While the distance on my layout have been shortened for convenience.
We’ll start with an older photo of the area I am working on. As you can see at this time two structures have been placed. The bar on the left is a Woodland Scenics kit from a previous layout. All of these small towns had least one social center that survived the years. The other building is Tommy Knocker’s Cabin from Wild West Scale Model Builders.
Now let’s fast forward from June 2011 to the present. The photo below shows the amount of progress that has been made over several weeks. While it looks like a lot has been done. The progress of constructing building has happen slowly over several years. The recent additions have been in planting grass, hedges, flowering bushes, adding fences and other small details that pull the scene in one completed view. I say “completed” with caveat that no scene is ever really completed. There are always small additional details to be added and the opportunity to change ones mind once you have the chance to see it as a whole. The backdrop has now gone on this list to be updated with new colors that will more closely match the foreground.
Below are additional close-up photos of the individual buildings.
