Thanks Jim, Yes there was a bit of trial and error involved there trying to get some of those back scenes right. Size is very important, especially for those behind model buildings, they should be scaled slightly less than the model to suggest depth. Distant buildings have to be made considerably smaller I will usually print out trial images and Blu Tac them to the back scene to check them first. They are checked from different angles to see if they look right. Sometimes they need to be re-sized......sometimes they just don`t work .....sometimes they are OK......it`s a bit of a lottery. Gormo
Hi Gormo, certainly tricky, but when it works, it really adds depth, I have only done it minimally with fields e.g. with a hedgerow shrinking into the corner of the layout and a little painting on the wall to represent distant hills, trees and shadows of buildings. I find it's important that distant objects almost pale into a haze (well for UK landscapes anyway), I did look at printed backscenes but they always seem so bright and too detailed, a bit like when I was sketching in my youth and my eyesight would pickout distant objects easily and my brain would overdetail them relative to the foreground, I don't have that trouble now Jim
G`day Folks, Back to the railway for a little bit now to finish off my low set industrial units.....they have been sitting on the bench for a few days waiting to be completed, and yesterday I got stuck in and did some of the fiddly bits. The flashing on the ends of the gables is card cut to 6mm wide and scored at 3mm down it`s length to allow it to fold over the gable ends. The flashing was then painted and left to dry before working out the angled cuts to fit them to the roof Once the flashing had been applied, I used the same method of cutting and scoring to create the ridge capping. The ridge capping was coloured with a graphic marker. Then set to on the signs......I had made them some time back but was not happy with the background on the French Polishers sign, so I changed it to basically, a GWR colour scheme The signs were glued to thin card. They were cut out today, had their cut edges coloured and were applied to the building. Guttering has been fitted to the two end walls and down pipes added to them and to the ends of the box gutters on the front of the building. The building is not fixed down yet ,but when it is, small sections of paving will be added in front of the office doors That`s another one ticked off the list Gormo
Very good Gormo, you have quite a knack with card, I notice that the business names are close to your heart, that is, in line with your other interests I linked most of my company and place names on my railway with people I have loved, known and respected in my life as well as the big UK names where I have liveried wagons, which in the UK of the 1960s was mainly related to tank wagons for fuel and oil, ICI chemicals and bulk cement. As an excuse to run pre-war coal and tank wagons I have specialist 'vintage' suppliers, which run with the rule 1 exemption or are they really ghost trains Jim
G`day Folks, It`s been a while since I last posted and in the interim I have got some things done. Also managed to pick up some new ( second hand ) coaches at auction and a new little Bachmann Prairie for Easter ( second hand ) which appears to have been run once and then put back in the box. The prairie comes with full documentation and the vacuum pipes are still in the bag. I think it`s a shame to have these beautiful models and just leave them in the box.......anyhow....we`re all different..... I have been deliberating about the position of the low set units for some time as to whether to set them with their backs to the railway wall or to set them at a right angle to the wall. The case for back to the wall, visually continues the flow of the railway and appeals to my sense of keeping everything in balance, however offsetting the units at roughly 90 degrees to the wall also appeals, because it gives a sense of space and order and function by allowing enough room for the units to function properly as a business. As you can see offsetting them won in the end. Glue is still setting on the grass, but when dry I will be applying a liberal amount of bushes etc. , especially at the rear of the units......probably some junk as well. You can see the cars in the background relegated to the railway lines until the work was completed. And now with some cars in place Yes so just some more detail to go More as it happens Gormo
Hi Gormo, that looks much better, it's amazing how a tweak like orienting those workshops can make, it gives more depth too Jim
Now you can see the back of the units I reckon you need to add some rear doors to access the back yard and for fire exits.
That's is a cracking scene you've created there. The backscene flows well with the foreground. I imagine it will look fantastic with a train passing when viewed at low level. Well executed.
Or to throw junk out of, or in one of my summer jobs while still at school, a backstep on which to sit with a mug of char during a tea break Jim
G`day Jim, Yes I think it was the right decision, however it did not look right to me for a long time, but I just thought I`d go with it, and when the extra roads were in and some green stuff put at the back, it all started to make more sense to me Gormo
G`day Folks, A bit more detail added to the current project today in the form of bushes / undergrowth and some bare patches of soil. Also put some doors in the back of the building and some back steps, so Jim can sit down and have his cuppa. No pics at the moment, but I`m thinking of building an outdoor brick dunny to service the industrial complex.....I think it would look good out the back and would be good enough to serve approx. 6 or 8 workers. Gormo
Not sure they would have had an outside dunny. These sort of places usually had women working in the office part and they wouldn’t have approved. I do think the buildings at a right angle to the garage looks perfect.