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How do you make a good looking trackplan? Dream and design
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Active Member 31 posts Benny Rönnhager Active Member 31 posts
Benny Rönnhager

Joe (or someone else),

I have looked at your Siskiyou Line trackplan many times and it's one thing I don't understand. How do you make your trackplan look so good? I mean all the trees, bushes, rivers, buildings and so on. Can you please tell me how it's done? I don't think you ever told that in your excellent DVD series.

Every trackplan I see in Model Railroader is also the same graphical style.

Benny
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Rio Grande Zephyr 5771 from Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City, Utah 

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bkempins Regular poster 317 posts
bkempins

Track Plans

The artists for MR use Adobe Illustrator to draw their track plans. Rick Johnson, one of their artists, wrote a plug-in for Illustrator that has useful model railroad graphic elements, such as turnouts, curves with easements, etc.  You can buy a copy of his plug-in at

http://rj-graffix.com/software/plugins.html

I use it for all my track plans.  This link has an example of one my track plans:

http://www.geocities.com/bkempins/TennPass/Pages/TrackPlan.html

I drew all the track plans and most of the graphics in my book using Adobe Illustrator.

http://www.geocities.com/bkempins/ASMMain/TrackPlanBook.html

Bernard Kempinski

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