Almost had me fooled...

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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You’ve just got to take a look at the scenery on this layout!

I almost took it for real…

http://www.enlasnubes.org/aug2004/Maquoketa/pages/0069_downtown_Maquoketa.html

… but then I noticed that you can just see the join between the pavement and the curb beneath the near tree.

Looking real close the vehicles sit up a tiny bit high on their tyres as well but the modeller has even painted the shadow under the auto. Amazing!

The other pics accessed from the link show a really lifelike town. Incredible detail!

Got to thanks Millrace in my “Walk ? Don’t walk” thread for this link.

Anyone else know of any other stuff this good for detail?

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That is incredible work. I could never hope to match that.

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I especially liked the Mom figurine in the series. Very realistic.

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No dis-respect but I think you are going to have to try harder to convence me that it is a model. I don’t believe anyone could be that realistic. If it is for real a model that is so much more than Amazing. Sorry for tie dis-beliefe, Prove me wrong. I would like that. Mike

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Looks pretty good for 1:1 scale. Not sure if its really a model of anything. looks like a typical midwestern town.

Rick

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I’m with Mike. I don’t think any of the pics are a model. The scenery could be a model only if they were pictures pasted to a backdrop.

This is one of those places where I would love to be wrong, but I don’t think I was almost fooled.

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Of course it’s not a model. Why are you wasting people’s time with this thread?

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Agreed. No one can paint the reflections off the back windows on the cars.

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Also, the detailed window interiors are much to in-scale and sharply defined for a model.

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Yep, gotta agree. It ain’t no model. It’s the reeeeeeal thing. The light and shadows are too realistic to be a model.

Tom

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If you snoop around you will discover that this a photo album from a trip the author took. Ergo, these are not model pics.

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I think you are correct about these being from an album. It resembles albums from Webshots but I cannot tell for sure. The scenery appears to be real and not a modelers work in my opinion.

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Dave, thou wast fooled.

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Okay, I’ll rephrase my original post:- “Here’s a really interesting collection of pics of a mid-west town that could be useful to modellers”. [|)][|(][|)]

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Yeah, it was from a thread asking what a “downtown” was. And I like Maquoketa so I was happy to use it for an example! :slight_smile:

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seriously… how could you think this was a model… look at the sky… the clouds are clearly not “behind” the buildings… which would be the best you could do with a backdrop…