Adding some scenery

That plain cardboard layout can be improved with a view grass surface items.

Building the cardboard hose and adding it:

Rokuhan Shorty SS02-1 Mini-Layout

Rokuhan offers several nice "Shorty" layouts: made out of cardboard and plastic.

This one got my attention, because of the slightly deviation of the standard oval track and because of the tunnel:

And here it is, the  Rokuhan SS002-1Shorty layout:

Here a few pictures:

I also got a metal box case:

This is too large for this mini-layout, but one can see the options which this Z scale has:

I could here build a whole layout into one of these box suitcases! I will do this eventually.

This is the layout:

And here it is in operation - just powered by two AA batteries hidden underneath the layout: