Ideas for Mini-scenes and Details

Detailing ideas! Sometimes the simplest of details can make all the difference in a scene on a layout or diorama. Cracked, discolored pavement... newspapers blown along a fenceline or in a corner... piles of junk or garbage and the neighbor's dog... using tile grout to represent decomposted ballast... printing signs with an ink-jet to hide empty interiors... making crates from stripwood... and so forth.