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Good progress over the past few weeks. Buildings are placed and shaded, railway positions corrected, utility poles and rail fences placed. There are more models to build but first I wanted to get all the foliage placed. Working on treelines now, with more diversity and ground cover to be added. Great fun to be working in TG and SpeedTree now instead of modeling. Needed a break from that.
Matching the historical foliage is interesting because so much of the area was clearcut in 1916. We often don't appreciate how much second-growth forest has been restored to the U.S. northeast over the past hundred years. I've decided to sacrifice a little accuracy for esthetics here, and will include more trees than were actually present.
Beginning to settle on a camera angle and time of day, which is now set at daybreak on September 24, 1916. Thinking about including a low layer of ground fog as a final touch, but that's a few weeks away.