NorthBritMore trees please.
A train in front of trees.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Show me more of the trees.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Wayne - More trees
Looking over Charlie Marston's Yard.
IMG_5825 by David Harrison, on Flickr
More trees please
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
The trees here aren't all that tall, but they are tall enough that the bridge is at least partly hidden by them...
Wayne
More tree pictures, please.
I guess we ran out of "firsts" to share. Here is a caboose in tall trees.
Show me more tall trees.
SeeYou190 John-NYBW I think corners are the best place for forced perspective because of the extra depth. The track tunnels under the scene. I've thought of putting the larger scale items in the foreground but I wondered if it would be convincing. It looks good in your photo. I have never built a scene on a layout using forced perspective. All my experiments have been simply for staged photographs. I have only visited one layout with a forced perspective scene. Garry's home layout in Kentucky had a scene near the backdrop populated withg structures smaller than N scale. It was very well executed.
John-NYBW I think corners are the best place for forced perspective because of the extra depth. The track tunnels under the scene. I've thought of putting the larger scale items in the foreground but I wondered if it would be convincing. It looks good in your photo.
I have never built a scene on a layout using forced perspective. All my experiments have been simply for staged photographs.
I have only visited one layout with a forced perspective scene. Garry's home layout in Kentucky had a scene near the backdrop populated withg structures smaller than N scale. It was very well executed.
The best example I've seen of forced perspective was at the railroad museum in North Creek, NY which is the northern terminus of the tourist Saratoga and North Creek Railroad. I'm going from memory but I think the layout represents the town of North Creek which was built on a hillside. About halfway up, the structures transition from HO to N but it is so well executed, it's almost not noticeable. I mentioned it to one of the guys running the layout and he told me most people don't even recognize it. If I wasn't a model railroader, I doubt I would have but having used the technique myself, I was able to spot it.
I was looking up information for this post and discovered the tourist railroad ceased operations in 2018, which was shortly after I rode it. The train had a loco on each end and on the return trip, I was allowed to ride in the cab of this loco which pulled the train back to Saratoga Springs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Saratoga_and_North_Creek_train.jpg
On our trip, the loco was facing forward.
Kevin - Another first.
First time Panoramic View.
IMG_1969 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another First please
John-NYBWI think corners are the best place for forced perspective because of the extra depth. The track tunnels under the scene. I've thought of putting the larger scale items in the foreground but I wondered if it would be convincing. It looks good in your photo.
NorthBritAnother 'First' please
The first freight car I built from a wooden kit.
Please show me another of your firsts.
SeeYou190 John-NYBW My first (and only) attempt at forced perspective. It looks great. I am assuming the structures are a smaller scale. John-NYBW More firsts please. This was my first attempt at forced perspective. The locomotive is HO, and the Soviet KV-1e tank is 1/48 scale. The entire scene is only ten inches deep. -Photograph by Kevin Parson I have since done quite a bit with forced perspective. Show me another "First" please. This has brought out a lot of creativity. -Kevin
John-NYBW My first (and only) attempt at forced perspective.
It looks great. I am assuming the structures are a smaller scale.
John-NYBW More firsts please.
This was my first attempt at forced perspective. The locomotive is HO, and the Soviet KV-1e tank is 1/48 scale. The entire scene is only ten inches deep.
I have since done quite a bit with forced perspective.
Show me another "First" please. This has brought out a lot of creativity.
Yes, the houses on the hill are N scale with the rest of the layout HO. They don't show very well in the photo but there are N scale telephone poles along the road which doesn't actually exist but is suggested by the gap in the trees. I also cheated by Photoshopping out a vent pipe that runs through the top of the back drop.
I think corners are the best place for forced perspective because of the extra depth. The track tunnels under the scene.
I've thought of putting the larger scale items in the foreground but I wondered if it would be convincing. It looks good in your photo.
Kevin. Another 'First'.
First attempt at making puddles 'after the rain'.
IMG_4230 (2) by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another 'First' please
John-NYBWMy first (and only) attempt at forced perspective.
John-NYBWMore firsts please.
doctorwayne Show me another of your "firsts" please.
Show me another of your "firsts" please.
SeeYou190 Show me another first. -Kevin
This now much-modified Mogul was my first brass locomotive...
PruittThis is my first ever rock casting.
PruittKeep on with the firsts...
This is my very first rock casting... made with crumpled alluminum foil.
Show me another first.
This is my first ever rock casting.
Keep on with the firsts...
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
First attempt at weathering with (Dawn's old makeup) powders.
IMG_5072 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another first please.
BATMANMore first, please.
This was the very first freight car I built from a resin kit.
First wood kit for the MRR ( I have built tons of R/C and line control airplanes out of wood ) and also the first attempt at static grass.
The bright yellow window frame is because it is copying what I saw in a coffee table book called "Prairie Sentinals", the office in the book also had window boxes, hanging baskets and flowers galore. They are still to come. I guess the grain guy's wife went crazy.
More first, please.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I have many favourite scenes on my layout. This is my most favourite.
Rose Holt in her Salvation Army uniform posing for a photograph before going about her work.
IMG_4227 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Next - Your First ----- ?
NorthBritAnother favorite car please
I suppose this would be the at the top of the list for me:
Ferdinand Magellan by Edmund, on Flickr
The Ferdinand Magellan was modified by Pullman for use by the U.S. President. This is an Overland model of which only sixty were made.
More favorites, please.
Favorite Passenger Car
'Director's Car'
IMG_5861 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another favorite car please
York1 Please show me the last car on a passenger train.
Please show me the last car on a passenger train.
SeeYou190Please show me another passenger car that is not a coach. -Kevin
Here is the Lounge Dome car on the City of Los Angeles:
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
gmpullmanPlease show me another passenger car that is not a coach.
Here is an Observation Car:
Please show me another passenger car that is not a coach.
John-NYBWShow me a combine, please.
This New York Central commuter train has a combine up front:
NYC_RS3-8209_Commuter by Edmund, on Flickr
Nyc_Combine_NJ-Custom by Edmund, on Flickr
N Scale Train Boy Show me another Caboose please!
Show me another Caboose please!
Wow! Lots of great postings since yesterday.
The daily MVRR short line mixed train prepares to leave the junction at Bedford Falls.
Show me a combine, please.
gmpullman More tail-ends, please.
More tail-ends, please.
I can oblige with a New Haven NE-5 caboose bringing up the end of a local freight!
Check out the Balfour and Colucci Creek Southern Railroad, my proto-freelanced N scale model railroad, at bccsrailroad.weebly.com or on Youtube on my channel, N Scale Train Boy.
-Dennis
NorthBritAnother end of a train please.
Back when the rear observation platform was vogue:
IMG_8223_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Kevin - End of a train.
IMG_2243 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another end of a train please.
doctorwayneMore trains at a crossing, please.
The caboose clears the crossing:
Show me the end of another train.
SeeYou190Show me another steam locomotive at a crossing. -Kevin
Loco at the crossing in Lowbanks...
More trains at a crossing, please.