St Ouen JNWR - How Much Detail is Required in a Photo Background?
Baseboard Design - Back
Best Laid Plans of Mice and Women - Forward
Layout Backscenes
How much detail do you need to include in a layout backscene? Is there an advantage to using a photographic backscene?
For St Ouen I planning on using a photographic backscene of trees and grass. I took about six photographs for this project, were taken in St Ouen, on a sunny afternoon last week. I am planning on superimposing photographs of buildings also photographed in St Ouen. Then in front of this placeing half relief buildings, then the railway and then some half relief building to frame the view, with their backs against the layout facia.
Sample of a section of the proposed background
The image is composed of a light blue colour gradient getting lighter towards the bottom, with the trees and foreground meadow superimposed onto it using Photoshop. The St Ouen area is very flat, very little of the grass and bottom of the trees will show on the layout. Any background buildings will be superimposed as required on a separate piece of card, to give slight actual physical depth, as with bas relief. I first saw this used on the N Gauge model of Buckfastleigh in Devon.
I'm intending printing out the photographic backscene, at the local library using a colour injet printer onto a single A3 sheet. Do you think that this is a viable method of producing a convincing background for my layout.
Bearing in mind that my scenic section is 230mm by 140mm with the scenic backscene having a height of 100mm. The layout is 2mm fine scale.
The main baseboard is progressing nicely. More pictures soon!
Lisa
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