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I have an a great idea, on my next layout you can make all the buildings

Thanks for the compliment. But I believe you are modeling in N scale and I have to try that out first.

Thanks for the compliment. But I believe you are modeling in N scale and I have to try that out first.

Its easy trust me

That wall does look very good especially in the second to last shot. It would be pretty hard if not impossible to get as good a variety of textures/colours using other methods such as plastic card.

 

I didn't know about that photo paper being cotton, interesting.

Wow Job, that really is a great colour and textured "feel". This must be one of your best looking buildings yet (and that says a lot). The tall photo in particular is very convincing.

 

It may sound like a very small detail, but I also really like the poster on the wall and the weeds near it. It's subtle and yet the eye picks it up and it helps to make the difference from a great model to a little piece of the real world.

That wall does look very good especially in the second to last shot. It would be pretty hard if not impossible to get as good a variety of textures/colours using other methods such as plastic card.

 

I didn't know about that photo paper being cotton, interesting.

 

The use of Schmincke pastels is I believe also possible on plastic card, after you have painted your building etc. with (acrylic) paint. Just try out with one piece of chalk. They have an excellent choice of greys.

 

 

The picture above shows a detailed part of a cotton photo sheet.

Wow Job, that really is a great colour and textured "feel". This must be one of your best looking buildings yet (and that says a lot). The tall photo in particular is very convincing.

 

It may sound like a very small detail, but I also really like the poster on the wall and the weeds near it. It's subtle and yet the eye picks it up and it helps to make the difference from a great model to a little piece of the real world.

 

Thanks Mikkel. I agree with the textured "feel". I have compared my picture, made with a standard digital camera, with pictures of the factory on the card modeling section of the RMweb and think that the use of Fine Art photo paper gives a lot more detail to the building.

 

The poster is part of the story I try to tell with this diorama. More about that later. 

I look forward to the story. Your stories are told in single pictures with very few words, which is very hard to do and very inspirational, I think.