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Ropley - The Road to Ricoh 5


TomE

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Hi all.

 

Just a quick entry this evening to show a little more progress.

 

Work the last few days has focused on finishing the backscene whilst I wait for a fresh delivery of track components and the locking, folding brackets for the fiddle yard legs.

 

I always intended the backscene to be a fairly simple affair, essentially representing a lovely sunny Hampshire day (he types, as it's grey & wet outside!) To get the effect I was looking for, the whole backscene was first sprayed with Halfords white primer, and then a light blue colour was added with lighter coverage towards the bottom, leaving the fade from white to blue you get on a clear day. I think this gives quite a nice, simple effect as shown in the photo above. I may be tempted to add clouds at a later date, but I'm undecided at the moment as a badly done backscene can spoil the effect and detract from the rest of the layout.

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

Ropley is a N Gauge Model using 2mm Finescale Easitrac modelled after the real location on the Mid Hants Railway Watercress Line.

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Thanks gents. 

 

It's actually a little more on the vivid side than I was planning, but hopefully once the scenery is in place on top of the embankment it will blend in nicely. 

 

Cheers, 

 

Tom. 

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Tom, looking forward to catching up and seeing your layout, the  blue sky backscene  looks spot on to me; consider living with it for 6 months and then decide if you feel clouds would add to the effect. I too prefer curved backscenes, I am constantly surprised by the volume of comments on the backscene on my layout ( Vale of Oxbury ).

Cheers Carl

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Thanks both.

 

Carl, looking forward to seeing Vale of Oxbury again, might even get chance to have a proper look at it for the first time!

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

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