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Would this bother people?

Brinkly

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Greetings chaps,

 

First of all may I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year. can I also say many thanks to everyone who has commented on my ideas, it really is useful as a builder.

 

Over the last couple of weeks I've been thinking more and more about baseboard construction and how I will run the layout and something that has raised it's ugly head is that the viewer of the layout will see only the backs of the buildings; the rear of the main station building, the signal box, the railway goods shed and the granny. Now this for me is a bit of a worry. All the interesting bits regarding the buildings can only be seen from the operators side, now this might sound like an easy problem to solve, simply swap sides, but another problem then occurs, the layout is cut into the side of the a hill, so the viewer will be looking down from the hillside into a valley!

 

So it is over to you, as Horrabridge is being designed as an exhibition layout would you mind seeing the rear of the buildings? Does it matter, or should I go down a different path and perhaps change the topography of the area a little to suit my needs!? :D ;)

 

Having said that the layout will be built on a curve to match the track work, so in theory the fronts of the buildings could be seen from different angels simply by walking along the length of the layout.

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(Front of the buildings, this side can only be seen fully from the operator sider)

 

Best wishes,

 

Nick.

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Captain Kernow
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Nick,

 

In one way, I really don't think it matters, because the reverse sides of buildings will still have lots of interest.

 

In another way, it can be an advantage, because you will be seeing the approach to the station buildings as if you were walking up the approach road, so there will be interesting glimpses of trains between buildings etc... - so, 'go for it', is my advice!

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Kris
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No issues with looking between buildings. I'm a little unsure about looking down a hillside, it's something that I have thought about in the past and I could not quite bring myself to like the idea.

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Brinkly
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Nick,

 

In one way, I really don't think it matters, because the reverse sides of buildings will still have lots of interest.

 

In another way, it can be an advantage, because you will be seeing the approach to the station buildings as if you were walking up the approach road, so there will be interesting glimpses of trains between buildings etc... - so, 'go for it', is my advice!

 

Thanks Tim,

 

That was my view, that the rear is just as interesting as the front and would lend itself to some interesting camera views.

 

Cheers.

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Brinkly
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No issues with looking between buildings. I'm a little unsure about looking down a hillside, it's something that I have thought about in the past and I could not quite bring myself to like the idea.

 

Thanks Kris,

 

My worry is that the backscene would have to be very high and I really didn't like that as an idea. But after all I wouldn't be paying to see the layout! ;)

 

Regards.

 

Nick

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10800

Mirrors? Miniature TV cameras showing the 'unseen side' to the public? And looking down onto the layout is just what we used to do as observers - make a positive innovatory feature out of it, Nick!

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Mirrors? Miniature TV cameras showing the 'unseen side' to the public? And looking down onto the layout is just what we used to do as observers - make a positive innovatory feature out of it, Nick!

 

Very good idea Rod!

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Mikkel
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Hi Nick,

 

I think most people won't mind. I'm a great believer in alternative viewing angles myself. There is much good to be said about the traditional "stage design" which gives a full open view from the front, but it can also become a bit dull at times.

 

So viewing things from the back could be quite novel, and might also increase realism in my view, since we don't often get the perfect full frontage view in real life.

 

Merry Christmas to you too! :)

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My prototype has this kind of problem. The track is cut in at one side and there is a 7' wall right along the rear of the siding behind the station, the entrance being from the road overbridge to one end down an incline. (The wall also continues up the approach.) I considered having the viewing side over the wall from behind the station because the curve of the line would be away from the viewer (and I could have had a rather amusing layout name), but eventually decided to go for viewing down the small banking. The only negative comment I got when displayed as a work in progress with the topography partially formed was "are we going to have to look down the bank at the stock then?" I'm unlikely to change this now, but I wouldn't mind viewing from the back.

 

Out of interest, where is the yard?

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