I’ve started adding some polystyrene to the foam board experiment to create some topography. Boscarne junction is cut into a hill side so at the rear there is a fairly steep bank. While to the front the same hillside falls down to water meadows and the river.
The whole exercise is turning into a little diorama and I shall experiment further with the surface dressings I might use on Bosmelin. Thus I shall need to include some ‘water’ and of course trees both of which I am less confident about.
A while back I bought Paul Bambrick’s book ‘Creating a Backscene.’
Backscenes on model railways are often a bit of a Cinderella feature. Occasionally one will see a top notch backscene but more often than not they are blue painted pieces of hardboard. Inevitably these are too low and end up as elbow rests for operators. A slovenly presentation at best. Less frequent but far too common are layouts with no backscene save for coffee cups, beer bellies and “stuff.” Enough said.
Backscenes are crucial for presentation in my view and constrain the layout. They can add atmosphere and provide time and place.
To provide depth a back scene can be built in 3D or as a kind of decopage and I shall use the experimental board to test this too.
I’ve been planning this adventure for far too long but now my zeal has been unleashed.
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