Does anyone have building flats up against their train layout background? Do you have pictures?
I am wanting to do this but not go for full on photo realism, but not too tinplatey either. I got these HO things and thought they would be good for me. I can scan the pieces I want and then enlarge them on the computer and make my building flats. Some of them have nice awnings and stuff.
I always thought those were so cool but I have never owned any.
I made my own using photos I found online taken by better photographers than I am of a few older and more famous Cleveland buildings and skyscrapers. However I did have to Photoshop most of them to remove things I didn’t want.
From left to right are the May Company (Ohio’s largest store), the Keith building (home to the original Electro Motive Corporation), the Ohio Bell building (the model for Clark Kent’s Daily Planet), the Illuminating Company building (because I like the look of it), the Society for Savings building (looking cool in terracotta) and of course the Terminal Tower as seen from the south or Cuyahoga River side of the complex. Over to the extreme right between the mountains I painted on illustration board is the newest addition to the skyline, the west break wall light house at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. All are inkjet printed and mounted to foam core, illustration board or something similar like the backing board from a legal pad. The terminal Tower is actually mounted to a section of the backing material from an inexpensive bookcase that collapsed. (The salvageable parts went to creating a half bookcase which I use to display my trains.). I use an adtech “tape runner” which puts down an acid free adhesive that’s very strong.
@Ken_Vandevoort those look good
I like those @pennytrains
My Walthers Tall Timbers backdrop arrived. I cut out the sky and glued it to a piece of cardboard. I already have a solid blue background, so this way, I can adjust the height of the Walthers mural up and down or left or right to suit what I need as I develop my other scenery. I think that I will also incorporate some of these pen and ink building flats as I go along, to kind of get the overall vibe I am wanting.
Here are some that I bought online. I don’t remember who made them but I can dig them out to find out.
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Northwoods Flyer
Very interesting. I’m from Cleveland. Nice work.
Lou N
