Does, Walthers "Instant Horizons" backgrounds all connect to each other or is it certain sets?
They go by sets -- and they don't always match within sets, either, because it seems that different printers made them at different times and with different colors of ink. They are on very thin paper that wants to leave lots of bubbles and easily tears when wet, so you have to be really careful when applying them.
The best procedure I found was to spray a liberal coating of 3M spray contact adhesive on the base and start at one end of the roll and very carefully press into place as you unroll the scene. A small paint roller to eliminate bubbles helps.
The only way to know what constitutes a set is to refer to the Walthers catalog.
I wondered the same about these and others, how to use on my masonite background and have them work together well, including sky color compatibility at the vertical seams. With advice from some who had done it, I settled on a number of city and industrial scenes (from Scenic Express, not Walthers) but cut out the sky and pasted the buildings cutout onto my sky blue painted background. The Scenic Espress paper was stout enough to go on easily with the back of the piece first coated (in the garage) with 3M "77" spray adhesive.
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/Scenic-Backdrops/products/1100/
The shot below is of two city scenes, one partially used twice to give about 2-1/2 posters length. I've since added industrial scenes to the ends. One other variation between the scenes I used is lighting effect; i.e., the industrial scenes are lighter than the city scenes and/or apparent light direction may not be consistent. I can see why many folks go to long real photo scenes but this go around I settled on this approach. I also added foamboard building flats and Cornerstone "background" buildings in the foreground. My space was limited but I enjoyed the process once I understood the alternatives. In the end I hope to add a bit of clouds to the limited sky (I made my background too short).
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
LION took these pictures from the subway station at Smith 9th Street:
These of course were each composed of about three shots stitched together with software for that purpose. I then opent my PagePlus program created a virtual page 11" tall by 60" long and positioned these photos on it. When I printed them to our color laser printer on a light wweight card stock, I was able to make a backdrop for the Smith 9th Street station on my layout. Only the sky and a narrow band that excludes that large flat roof was used for the layout
Looks, good, but it needs lighting since is is under the shadow of the level above it. Here it is on my layout.
Here is same platform in Brooklyn
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS