First pics of my layout

[Anonymous]

If this works, this should be my first pic of my layout I have ever shown in public. The photo was taken with an 18 Mil lens so the room is somewhat distorted in appearance. The back of the room looks about 4 feet wide, but is 7 feet wide. On the far right hand corner of the photo, you will see the wall starts juting in (for another 2 1/2 feet becoming 9 1/2 wide) into my nolix area.

The idea of this photo is to show the Faller's backdrop I used, two different scenes that fits right into the BC landscape here in Canada, but of course, is really somewhere in Europe.

In the bottom scene, I have the backdrop - on hardboard - standing out from the wall about 4 inches; on the top, the backdrop, still on hard board is attached to the walls directly.

Also the L brackets you see on the wall jutting out are home made jobbies I did with rather thick MDF.

So the layout pictured here is larger than it looks, but its still in a small room. The piece on the left that will house a reversing loop is 10 feet long; in the pic it looks about 6 feet long.

http://www.railimages.com/album/Rick%20Nicholson/layout5.jpg

http://www.railimages.com/album/Rick%20Nicholson/layout4.jpg

[Anonymous]

If this works, this should be my first pic of my layout I have ever shown in public. The photo was taken with an 18 Mil lens so the room is somewhat distorted in appearance. The back of the room looks about 4 feet wide, but is 7 feet wide. On the far right hand corner of the photo, you will see the wall starts juting in (for another 2 1/2 feet becoming 9 1/2 wide) into my nolix area.

The idea of this photo is to show the Faller's backdrop I used, two different scenes that fits right into the BC landscape here in Canada, but of course, is really somewhere in Europe.

In the bottom scene, I have the backdrop - on hardboard - standing out from the wall about 4 inches; on the top, the backdrop, still on hard board is attached to the walls directly.

Also the L brackets you see on the wall jutting out are home made jobbies I did with rather thick MDF.

So the layout pictured here is larger than it looks, but its still in a small room. The piece on the left that will house a reversing loop is 10 feet long; in the pic it looks about 6 feet long.

http://www.railimages.com/album/Rick%20Nicholson/layout5.jpg

http://www.railimages.com/album/Rick%20Nicholson/layout4.jpg

[Anonymous]

The scenery you see are mountains in bavaria / germany.
Try this link:

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

expensive, but good.

[Anonymous]

The scenery you see are mountains in bavaria / germany.
Try this link:

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

expensive, but good.

[Anonymous]

If you read one person's approach to backdrops thread further down in the layout posts, you will see why I choose Faller's. I also posted this thread here to answer some of the critics critique of commercial backdrops. Faller's isn't that popular in North America. Fortunately for me, the Walther's catalogue pictures of the backdrop sucks so very few have used it. So what I have posted here will be a first time see for most modeller's.

Now to be honest I did question whether I should show Faller's and maybe contribute to its popularity.... lol... and thus it becoming more recognizable, but I don't really see that as a problem. I have been visiting and examining the backdropwarehouse stuff for about three years now and I'm quite familiar with it. Sometimes I do spot it in some of the MR published layouts, but it still looks good to me.

I notice bad backdrop more than good backdrop. Once I have track laid and scenery in, anyone recognizing this as Faller's who is operating at my place will soon forget about it and get into the trains. It won't be crying out as bad backdrop.

The scenes are almost completely generic. The mountains on the bottom level look very much like an area here in greater Vancouver called the Chilliwack Valley. They also look very similiar to the Cascades in the state of Washington. The upper level is rolling hills heading towards mountains that you will find on the eastern side of the American and Canadian Rockies; also in some areas of British Columbia and Washington.

There is some buildings in the pics, but they appear about a "mile" off in the distance seperated by a field. So scale isn't a problem, they work in HO or N.

[Anonymous]

If you read one person's approach to backdrops thread further down in the layout posts, you will see why I choose Faller's. I also posted this thread here to answer some of the critics critique of commercial backdrops. Faller's isn't that popular in North America. Fortunately for me, the Walther's catalogue pictures of the backdrop sucks so very few have used it. So what I have posted here will be a first time see for most modeller's.

Now to be honest I did question whether I should show Faller's and maybe contribute to its popularity.... lol... and thus it becoming more recognizable, but I don't really see that as a problem. I have been visiting and examining the backdropwarehouse stuff for about three years now and I'm quite familiar with it. Sometimes I do spot it in some of the MR published layouts, but it still looks good to me.

I notice bad backdrop more than good backdrop. Once I have track laid and scenery in, anyone recognizing this as Faller's who is operating at my place will soon forget about it and get into the trains. It won't be crying out as bad backdrop.

The scenes are almost completely generic. The mountains on the bottom level look very much like an area here in greater Vancouver called the Chilliwack Valley. They also look very similiar to the Cascades in the state of Washington. The upper level is rolling hills heading towards mountains that you will find on the eastern side of the American and Canadian Rockies; also in some areas of British Columbia and Washington.

There is some buildings in the pics, but they appear about a "mile" off in the distance seperated by a field. So scale isn't a problem, they work in HO or N.

[Anonymous]

it says Im forbidden to veiw the pics....

[Anonymous]

it says Im forbidden to veiw the pics....

[Anonymous]

Me to Rick. Something wrong?

[Anonymous]

Me to Rick. Something wrong?

[jwar]

sorry no pic, rerail it..

[jwar]

sorry no pic, rerail it..

[Anonymous]

Many keep their pics at railimages a www.trainboard.com But Charlie, the owner of trainboard experienced difficulties with the host of railimages, so he is in the process of changing web servers for railimages.

Railimages for you that don't know is a free service where you can store your pics and display them on the net. To display a pic it has to be stored either at your own web site, or another web site. Railimages is free.

I have seen the testing they are doing at trainboard so it should be relatively soon that the dreaded "X" will disappear, and pics return.

[Anonymous]

Many keep their pics at railimages a www.trainboard.com But Charlie, the owner of trainboard experienced difficulties with the host of railimages, so he is in the process of changing web servers for railimages.

Railimages for you that don't know is a free service where you can store your pics and display them on the net. To display a pic it has to be stored either at your own web site, or another web site. Railimages is free.

I have seen the testing they are doing at trainboard so it should be relatively soon that the dreaded "X" will disappear, and pics return.