Background Street View

[markie97]

I have a city street scene that will start with a street perpendicular to the edge of my layout and progress across track and between two background bulidings street width apart and into a background scene. I am anticipating the background scene to be a photo, drawing or whatever. I also think that maybe the photo may be modified by Photoshop.

Any methods or sources for accomplishing this?

Thank you in advance.

Mark

[MisterBeasley]

This is a scene I tried in a corner of my layout.  I'm cursed with a 45-degree roofline, so I did what I could to draw the eye away from that.

I saw an article in MR a few years back about blending a photo into a roadway.  To test it out, I went outside, stood in the road on a quiet Saturday afternoon, and took a few pictures.  For this scene, the best angle seemed to be with the camera at about knee height above the road.

Since the photo has trees and a gray roadway, I painted my road about the same color, and added a few foreground trees on the borders of the picture.  One thing the article recommended was having a small rise in the physical roadway before the picture, so the actual boundary is slightly hidden.  The photo starts where the yellow lines are in the roadway.  For my era, the lines should be white, not yellow.  I should continue those lines on the physical roadway to enhance the illusion.

I placed a truck on the road, again to hide the actual boundary.  This is still the original test print I did for the photo, on plain paper.  It looked good enough that I never got back to do a print on high-quality photo paper.  One of these days I'll put a backdrop on that wall and blend it all in.

 

[rrebell]

I found a pic on the net and printed it, then dullcoated it and then applied it to styrene that was just thick enough to hold its shape and glued it to the backdrop. Disguised the edges with buildings or trees or.

[Catt]

Mr.B,

That first picture looks great,but the truck in the second pic IMHO ties it all together and makes it look very real.

[doctorwayne]

Catt

Mr.B,

That first picture looks great,but the truck in the second pic IMHO ties it all together and makes it look very real.

 

My thoughts exactly...nicely done, Mister B.

 

I have a couple of city streets which end at the backdrop.  To suggest a cross-street there, I added photo flats of structures, hiding the sides of the pictures behind the fully-modelled buildings in the foreground.

I think that the ruse looks not too bad when viewed from eye-level:

 

 

 

...but not so convincing when the viewer is standing:

 

 

Wayne

[mbinsewi]

A couple of scenes where streets end at backdrop.  These are about 3' away from the edge of the layout, and just below eye level.  I did zoom in to take the pics.  The scenes have since been populated with some vehicles and people.  They look deserted in my pics.

Mike.