Scenery and structures
A Traditional English cottage after drawings made in 1939
After the kind reception I received for my engine shed interior and related scenes, herewith I include pictures of a row of typical farm workers cottages. They are built from drawings made by a John Ahern in 1939, his family still hold he copyrights and have given me permission to reproduce them here.
Made from cardboard and paper, there is nothing 'bought-in' save downloaded texture papers from Scalescenes.
Question on setting the horizon on a backdrop with hills / mountains
Question for you expert / semi-expert backdrop people / painters: If the foreground actual 3-d (foam) scenery changes elevations does the horizon line change with it or does it remain horizontal? Please see my poorly drawn sketch below. I'm asking this question to understand where the fading of blue to a lighter color should occur. Thanks in advance for your answers.
Card board buildings
Hi
A friend showed me this : http://www.scalescenes.com/. It looks interesting but it is based on UK prototypes. Are there any US suppliers with US paper models?
Robert from Sweden
Building lighting
I am after some ideas on how to stop light showing through lighted plastic structures.
I am not sure whether to paint the inside of the building or fix card stock or something similar.
I have reduced the intensity of the light but I am still getting that skeletal appearance.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards
Bernie
Some uses for Water Putty
Here In Australia we have Agnew's Water Putty which is identical to the American product Durham's Water Putty.
The manufacturer recommends you mix it mix it three parts putty to one part water. I never measure exactly. Near enough seems to be good enough. It dries rock-hard and it can be sanded and sawn.
You can add acrylic paint to it as well, but in my experience doing so actually hastens the drying. The normal working time of 30 minutes is reduced significantly. This is contrary to what it says on the label, but I swear it's true.
3D backdrop
Hello every one.
I am building a HO logging layout set in the late 1890's. I would like to have a 3D backdrop made by carving distant mountains into foam, 3 or 4 layers, each 3/8" thick glued onto one another and using fine ground foam of different shades of green rather then painting.
I have done some experiments that are very promising. I don't appear to have the talent to paint any thing convincing and this idea seems to be promising.
Cute Caboose
Why model the standard caboose when you use one of these prototypes. Would make for a great addition to a modern image layout.
7 Train Cars Transformed into Tiny Houses. Read more at http://dornob.com/cute-caboose-7-train-cars-transformed-into-tiny-houses/#axzz2rk5ukYlF
Hand painted backdrop, my tenth or so attempt
Thanks to the encouragement from you guys, Rob Spangler's tips, and more practice, I think I can now paint a backdrop I can live with. I stuck to the basic colors for the distance mountains, which I found to be "Country Tan", "Utra Marine", "Burnt Umber", and "Ivory". These were mixed to different degrees and blended rather than blotched. I used my iPad with google street views of the mountains from the 99W (next to the CFNR tracks) north of Williams as a guide while I painted.
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