Backdrop Material

[Anonymous]

I liked the backdrop material I saw in the S Scale Layout by Jess Bennett in the 07/04 edition of Model Railroader - It is referred to as "printed paper sky" - Can anyone give me more info on this?

It will be appreciated.

[CBQ_Guy]

Don't know if this is what you're looking for or not, but point your browser to:

http://www.backdropwarehouse.com/indexbdwh.htm

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

I'm looking into printing my own backdrops from photos I'm taking along the old railbeds here in the Adirondacks. I can splice/blend the photos on my computer to create a panorama photo. My daughter has printed banners 8' long using folding paper but I'll try finding photo-quality paper in a roll to avoid folds/seams. I don't expect photo-quality results on the cheap, just hoping for a decent representation of the mountains my layout is set in.

Anyone made their own backgrounds from photos?

Wayne

[simon1966]

I am playing around with a software package called Big Picture. It blows up the image and breaks it up into 8 1/2 x 11" sections. You can program the page overlap so that you avoid blank strips. I have been taking tree line and horizon images and creating great looking backdrops.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966

I am playing around with a software package called Big Picture.

Thanks for that. I just went to their website & will be ordering it. It certainly is cheap enough, under 20 bucks.
Wayne.

[simon1966]

Look for it on e-bay. The guy sells multiple copies at a time for a lot less than the retail on the web site.

[preceng]

Find a local engineering, drafting type reprographics business. Locally, we have places called Print-O-Stat. I use POS for plotting engineering drawings. They can plot drawings, photos, etc. on larger format paper that they have rolls of, so you can reproduce pretty much any length. They also have different paper stock.

Good Luck