Hi everyone and Happy New Year! So, I’ve tried searching for an article that I saw in MR awhile ago, maybe last year, on using an angled mirror to extend the scenery. I believe it was mostly about using that method in a city scene but it could work for a ravine as well, I’m hoping. Does anyone remember it or have experience with this method?
Thanks ahead of time for any responses.
Bill
Bill:
It may have been used on the Bona Vista Model Railroad, which according to this video here on mirrors by the same author was in the March 2013 MR.
I too am looking at a mirror to display half of a court house square to make it look like a full court house square with street running in the front.
Victor A. Baird
Fort Wayne, Indiana
John Allen ‘doubled’ a stub-end yard by having it run into a mirror perpendicular to the tracks. He partially disguised it by having a burned-out building (Teaby Fire Extinguisher C., IIRC) half model, half-reflection, with a red lamp at the base and some hazy smoke painted on the mirror. I can see the possibility of some hikers around a campfire in your ravine (possibly with a tent only visible in reflection.)
The best mirrors for the purpose are reflective on the front surface, and care must be taken to keep any 1:1 scale objects out of the 1:87 scale reflection.
There are no mirrors in my future. My scenery relies heavily on forced perspective - the reflection would show more distant objects becoming larger…
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Thank you Chuck! I don’t suppose you have any pics or know where I can go to see them.
Victor!! That’s it!!! Thank you very much. Now the video says 2014 so I’ll go thru my mags and see if I can find it otherwise I will have to try and figure out how to save that video to my computer.