I could just buy a backscene... but...
I could just buy a backscene. Lots of companies offer them but the thing is none of them say “west end of Glasgow”. Or for that matter any real part of Edwardian Glasgow. Anyway where is the fun in just buying stuff?
So I have an idea in my head, long rows of traditional tenements interspersed with some industrial buildings. Maybe some older houses tucked in there too. Well, quite a few buildings, I am going to need about 18 feet of backscene in total.
Easy then, its what I did on Kelvinbank 1. Well, yes and no. Photography and printing have moved on since then. Just go off, take a lot of photographs of tenements, spend a few weeks in a photographic program, print it out and stick it together. In theory. I live in the west end of Glasgow, I can walk about and take pictures of tenements all day long. Thing is though its much harder than it seems, particularly if you want a straight on front view. Thousands of places I can can pics from ground level at an angle but straight on ? Or even fairly straight on? It has taken a while but I’m getting to grips with it.
The basic method is simple. Get a pic , put it into Affinity or other program, square it off. Fix the stonework, slate the roof, sort the chimneys, replace the window and doors, get rid of all the modern bits, shift the lampposts. Scale it to size, print it out. Squint at it from various angles, go back to square 1, have another go. Ad Nauseam.
Somewhere under all those bits of paper is a railway…..
Edited by Dave John
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