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@Marly51 You are happy to have an illustrator in your family. Today, the biggest problem for collaboration with artists is the copyright issue. In case you have nobody on hand, you need to find somebody willing to grant you right for the use of his/her work.

Here is another outcome of my collaboration with Anthemios: Urban freight by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

I recently witnessed the arson-caused burning down of a building. Having taking some pictures of the ruin, I got the idea to use one of the photos as a background for a temporary TT scale photo diorama scene. To celebrate my newly aquired AT-T crawler tractor, which I bought on the modell-hobby-spiel fair in Leipzig, Germany, I moved the fictitious scene to Russia. See the story in the caption on the Flickr page:Cleaning up by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr Joern Cleaning up by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

Thanks. Actually, the entire brick structure below the tracks is just an edited photo. It is mentioned in the description on the Flickr page. Attached is the original photo I used for this. Joern

As a pre-study for another Berlin diorama project, I arranged this temporary photo scene. The train the same TT scale model as used in the other photo. The background appartment building on the left was made from a cardstock kit from Danish manufacturer Epoke Modeller. The brick structure on the right side was kitbashed using parts from Auhagen kits. Berlin transit II by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

More than 10 years ago, German TT scale (1:120) manufacturer Tillig offered a limited collector's edition of an US diesel engine that resembled an FP7 without meeting that prototype exactly. It was made with Rock Island and CB&Q paint scheme. The drive was based on Tillig's DB series 101. Unfortunately, they only made A units. To get an impression of how a full A-B-A consist would look on my layout, I created a virtual B unit by photo editing. The photo shows the full consist roaring with a fast freight through the left part of my TT scale US layout. Full consist by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr In contrast to many of my other pictures in which I combined real model scenes with virtual backgrounds (see https://flic.kr/s/aHsjBrMiB9), this picture was taken on a real model railway layout with a virtual train in the foreground that never existed this way in reality.

Some of the railway photos I took in Bangkok in the last two years, you find in this Flickr album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsk8K4j9w Joern

Wim, As a TT scale modeller, it's great news that somebody is working on a Thai layout in 3 mm scale. Are there some more photos of your layout avaible online? Joern

In another forum, this photo got a critical comment because of the appearance of the brick wall below the model train. Now, in a remastered version of that picture, I reworked this wall area to make it look more realistic. Also, this is my first picture in which I applied a filter from the new Flickr editor. Joern Leaving the City I - remastered by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

Here are two more outcomes from my collaboration with Anthemios. The background pictures are from the computer games 'Mafia III' and 'Crisis III'. Joern Switching in the district by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr Industrial wasteland by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

Thanks! Actually, this diorama is quite small, just 30 cm x 15 cm. I'm thinking of making a bigger one on a Berlin scene. Joern

German manufacturer Lemke has just brought out a collector's model of a Berlin S-Bahn car of the series 481. Since it's in TT scale (1:120), which is my favourite modelling scale, I couldn't resist to take a photo on my Berlin diorama. The diorama resembles the area around the S-Bahn station Warschauer Strasse, which is a wellknown railfan spot. With a closed and boarded up signal tower of the typical Berlin architecture, elevated district heating pipes from the old East German times, and Wildstyle graffiti, the layout provides the typical Berlin railway athmosphere of the early 2000s. The S-Bahn series 481 fits perfectly into this era. Berlin transit by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

What looks a little like a London Underground scrapyard is actually a photo taken in London Transport Museum depot. Joern Underground scrap by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

Just found another interesting guy: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/03/miniature-urban-buildings-by-joshua-smith/ Joern

I sometimes set up temporary photos scenes with railway models (vehicles and structures) and combine the final picture with a photo background. Here is a typical example with some of my German equipment: Brandenburg railroad atmosphere 1 by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr For more pictures of that kind, visit this Flickr album. Joern

Today, if you add some creativity to your modelling, it's more and more accepted not just as a hobby but as an art form. Beside the artists discussed in this thread, there are some other guys that practice model making as an art. Two very famous guys are Alan Wolfson and Ryu Seung Ho. It's not unusual, to see the work of these and other modelling artists in international art galleries. In the meantime, even railway modelling is sometimes considered as an art form. As an example, in 2012, American rock musician and artist Peter Feigenbaum, famous for his H0 scale trainset ghetto layout (which was an operational model railway layout!), had some of his ghetto buildings presented in a Berlin art gallery: Ghetto buildings by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr Burnout by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr With some of my model railway pictures I published on Flickr and on deviantart, I also recently attracted attention from art people. Some weeks ago, I was even invited for an interview by a university campus magazine, see the relevant thread in the media folder. The perception of railway modelling by the public is obviously changing these days. I very appreciate it. Joern

@Alcaman Looks great! Can hardly tell, where the layout ends and the background picture begins.

Just opened the 2017 photo season by a picture that also fits into this category. The background picture is again a screenshot by Anthemios from the computer game Fallout 4. Joern Leaving the city II by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

In the meantime, I finished another piece. It's again a collaboration with Anthemios. The background picture is a screenshot from the computer game 'Fallout 4'. Joern Leaving the city I by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

Here is another piece of collaboration with virtual reality artist Anthemios. The foreground is a heavily rendered photo of a model scene in TT scale (1:120). For the background picture, I used a screenshot Anthemios took from the video game 'Mad Max'. Mad Max on rails by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr The compilation below shows how the picture was created. On the left side is the model scene arranged for taking the photo on the balcony of my apartment. The upper picture on the right shows the photo how it came out of the camera. The lower picture on the right is the final result. The making of a picture by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

Last week, I took this photo of one of the last non-modernised 'Lusatia Crocodiles' in front of an F60 conveyor bridge. Both the bridge and the locomotive are now part of a coal mining museum site in East Germany. As to be seen from the shadows, the photo was taken with moderate opposing light. By applying an Aviary Cruz filter, this turned out to be not too bad but allowed to create a special atmosphere. Joern The last rest by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

A look out of the window of the Starbucks shop at Dresden Central Station into the canvas covered main hall. Starbucks by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

While waiting for a train at Hamburg Central Station, I wandered a little around and found this inspiring place. The photo was taken by the cell phone camera of a Blackberry classic. To get that specific look, I applied an Avenue filter. Sometimes, reality looks almost better than my dioramas ;-) Joern Hidden place by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr

After all the discussions on artists inspired by model railways and vice versa, here is the result of a collaboration between an artist and a railway modeller:. Freight train passing by Jörn Pachl, auf Flickr For the TT scale model scene in the foreground, I kitbashed the interlocking tower using a German prototype kit from Auhagen. It does now hardly resemble the original model. The background picture was provided by virtual reality artist Anthemios who is well-known for edited in-game screenshots. This picture is a cutout of a bigger screenshot from a Beta version of the game 'The Division'. Here is a link to the original picture on the Flickr page of Anthemios: flic.kr/p/DBwn4D Joern

RMWeb uses the traditional BB format. To make Flickr pics seen in the forum, just copy the BBCode you get from Flickr into the posting. A BBCode is only available for individual pics, however. For an album, you can only post the URL. Joern