The Watrfall Problem. The ptoblem with waterfalls, no mater how well they are modelled, is that they represent a moving scene but on a layout they simply, unrerealistically, do not move.
Has anoyne tried this: Take a video of a real waterfall and put it on a small video player. Embed it in a mountain or canyon scene and run it on the layout. Certainly this is costly, but what is more important, food or model railroading?
Seriously, suggestions? Thanks. Sid
I can't picture an installation where that would look like anything other than a television buried in a mountain. Perhaps if you were able to sculpt a smooth white waterfall and project a perfectly masked and aligned video on the front of it...
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Or maybe sculpt a waterfall of white and rear project onto it from inside the mountain. You can use the sides of the waterfall to mask it from behind. Still very expensive and complex though.
I would try using moving lights behind a translucent waterfall to make it look like it is moving. Of course that wouldn't work with a layout that had night lighting.
The TV screen approach would work better with a model drive-in.,
S&S
Modeling the Pennsy and loving it!
Schuylkill and Susquehanna I would try using moving lights behind a translucent waterfall to make it look like it is moving. Of course that wouldn't work with a layout that had night lighting. The TV screen approach would work better with a model drive-in., S&S
The TV screen approach has been used to create model drive-ins. The hardest part is to gather up era-appropriate movies.
As for the flashing-light waterfall, just connect it to the same switch that kills the 'daylight' - through a relay if necessary. Or just flip its own, private lightswitch.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with waterfalls)