1:1000 scale. Too small for most model railroads but someone might find them useful to represent part of a city way off in the distance.
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
Maybe my eyes are somehow wrong, but the attempt to create the illusion of distance by using smaller scale buildings has never worked for me.
Sir Madog Maybe my eyes are somehow wrong, but the attempt to create the illusion of distance by using smaller scale buildings has never worked for me.
Same here.
That's because your two eyes provide your brain with depth information that keeps you from being fooled. The primary use of forced perspective in model railroading, in my opinion, is to fool the single eye of the camera.
Even so, it's a technique that can still be of use in scenes primarily viewed in person. The unconvincing nature of backdrops whose perspective doesn't match all viewing angles of our foreground modeling doesn't keep us from using them, after all.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Steven Ottehat's because your two eyes provide your brain with depth information that keeps you from being fooled. The primary use of forced perspective in model railroading, in my opinion, is to fool the single eye of the camera.
You are right there, Steven.
My issue with forced perspective is that there is only one angle in which you may get the feeling of depth. Viedwed from another angle, things just don´t look right.
An excellent example is Peter Dillen´s "Ijsselstein" layout, shown at the Ontraxs event in 2015.
The layout allows for only one viewing angle - an inch off that and the thing looks rather ridiculous!
At the Stephen Foster memorial in North Florida there are several displays that effectively use forced perspective. The "Camptown Races" display is especially well done.
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I have never been happy with my attempts at forced perspective.
-Kevin
Living the dream.