Good morning all....I'm trying to get some help/idea's for the background of a section of my layout. Here is my delemma....I only have about 1" of space between track roadbed and adjacent wall...this is a moutain area and although i can place small rock close to track..no room for big outcropings etc...if anyone can point me in direction for reference articles etc....would love to hear or see them. I know that there are commercial background pics/wallpaper...if anyone has used them would like cretique....if painting is only recourse...i'm not an artist and do not want to mess this up as it will be very viewable...anyway..thanks for any and all comments and help........Tom
The Connecticut Valley Model RR Club has an N scale layout of the Maine Central going through Crawford Notch, NH, simple but quite spectular. The rock faces are tall and vertical. If I remember correctly they were all done with molds made from crumpled tin foil, so they could be quite thin. At the top put some brush hanging over the edge. If viewers can see above the top, paint some simple dark blue mountains in the distance.
Good luck,
pcarrell wrote:Our own Joe Fugate has had some experience with situations like that. Maybe he'll chime in. In the mean time, here's something he wrote that might help a bit: http://siskiyou-railfan.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.12
Ahhh. The more I see, the more I wish I'd built mine higher. My 'ground' level of 52" with track rising to 64" in places isn't exactly short, but if I had it to do over again, I'd basically have ground at my neck level (~60") instead of mid-chest-level (as it is now, I'm 6'0"). Only 8" difference, but a whole different "look".