Thanks for the advice, let’s try again.
I have about 1 ¼” between the wall and the track. I need some ideas on how to handle this area. I bought some flat building pics but not too impressed. I will be purchasing some background buildings, but will need to use them in other areas. I’m not a good artist either lol, So if anyone has any ideas please let me know, pictures would be a plus thanks
PS. how do you attach pictures?
Posting Pictures:
First you must create a host such as PHOTOBUCKET www.photobucket.com to upload pictures It is free. After you create your account you merely click on the upload button and then select the picture you want to upload from your computer.
Now you are ready to post that picture to your thread.
There are two ways to insert the picture. The way I like to do it is to click on the direct link box under the picture on photobucket. This automatically copies the link. Then you go to the thread and there is a bar across the top. One of the icons is green and looks like film. Click on this and a window will open with a box to paste the URL that you got from photobucket.
When you click on" insert" the picture will show up on the thread wherever your cursor is placed
I try to have the cursor placed so that I have space above and below the inserted picture.
The second method is in photobucket click on the image link under your picture and paste it in your post.
Using this method you won’t see the picture until you post your thread.
It sounds like a big deal but it is actually simple once you get the hang of it.
Hope this helps… if not let us know
Bob
TRY this link http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/190349.aspx
Copy the buildings & resize to your scale. The plus is they are FREE!
I print these on cardstock & can use spray adhesive to attach to your backdrop.
The trick is to have a layered progression from 3d buildings to 2d background. Here is a link of signs & billboards that can help with that progression.
That’s not much space, so you’re probably going to be using only “flats,” not even background buildings. The idea of a flat is that it’s just one wall. If you pick up a DPM kit, for example, you’ll get 4 walls, and you could space them out or intermix them with another kit for an urban background, getting a lot of linear size instead of a single small building.
You can also purchase background scenes, either relatively cheap ones on paper or much nicer ones on vinyl. A lot of companies make these, and you may find an appropriate scene in their online catalogs.
I’ve bought a couple of background structures from Walthers Cornerstone. There are often extra parts. The Arrowhead Ale kit came with lots of extra windows, and the Centennial Mills kit had not only windows, but a complete, full-sized back wall, with windows and loading docks. Even if you don’t get these “bonus” parts, it’s not hard to get a piece of brick sheet, cut some holes for windows, paint it and weather it, and set it up. Windows are available in a staggering number of styles, too. You can make these more 3D by adding half-inch side walls, or add just one side wall and mount the building at a slight angle to the wall for some variety.
LION made these buildings on a computer, they are shaped by a sheet of foam behind the picture, and glued to the wall. I fabricated a sidewalk and a bit of roadway, set off with another sidewalk, a chain link fence made of bridal vale from a fabric store held in place with straight pins and planted some trees on the slope.
All of this is a little up hill from the tracks, you can see the street up near the roof line of the train. (This train is supposed to be running in an open cut.
Admittedly this is a little more than an inch and a quarter, but not all that much more, the whole table at this point is only 12" wide, had two tracks and the other half of the open cut outboard of the southbound track.
One important trick is to hide the bottom of any backdrop that you use. Build up something in front of it even if it is only bushes or something.
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