Model Railroad Hobbyist | July 2016 | #77 GETTING REAL column Nick Muff Modeling the Kansas City Southern Railway| Mainline South – Scenery for the “Ozark Mountains” Part 1 In my last column back in the November 2015 issue of MRH, I created my Ozark Mountain foam core base, Geodesic Foam hard shell, rock faces and painted the rock cast- ings. Please refer back to that article for the background about what it took to get my scenery to this stage. This time, I bring the mountains to life with moss, grass, trees, brush and other details. Bringing life to the rocks Even in the desert small plants and lichen will grow over rock surfaces. This is especially true in Arkansas with its regular rain- fall and a warm humid environment in the summer. So in addi- tion to the greenish streaks down the face of the rock that we added last time, we will add some scenic foam to the rock faces to represent mosses, likens, and small plants that grow there. XX MODELING REAL RAILROADS AND WHAT THEY DO • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS