Model Railway Scenery

Decorating your layout with buildings, line side equipment, and landscaping, comes only second, to running your layout. Above are links to there respective topics, with descriptions evaluation of different methods:

My advice is read all the methods used and decide for yourself which one fits your circumstances best. As what may have been right for me might not be right for you

Scenery can be bought or built, expensive or cheap. It all depends on your abilities, the amount of spare time you have, and your budget. Ready made buildings and structures are great for when you don't have the time or skill to create you own. They are expensive however especially if you buy good looking models, the ones with the plastic look to them.

In the case of vegetation you can buy trees, but you will still have to do all the grass an hill work, as ready made just does not exist. This is though the easiest and most fun stuff to do. If you are building for you kids, this is often the work which you and them can work together on. Working with papier-mâché and model-rock is great.

I would like to repeat myself, read all the methods used and decide for yourself which one fits your circumstances best. If you haven't got the money build it, If you haven't got the time buy it.