Comments on: Ideas For Scenery and Structures

By: William Gittins

William Gittins — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:56:50 +0000

Earlier comments are great. I would add that since you are limited in depth there are ways to get the results suggested by the comments. Consider using frontal scenery that is of one or two story size. In the background (against the backdrop) use some low relief buildings that provide large industry, I am assuming that your railroad needs one or two real manufacturing plants but they do not really fit a 12 inch setback.However the industries only need to exist for providing rail stops for you rolling stock fleet. Even in rural areas there were (and still are) large building for manufacturing.Good Luck

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:18:47 +0000

What industries you use are of course dependent on your era. A 1950 steam/diesel mix layout could have an ice platform and stock pens. Not so much on a modern era layout (especially no ice platform as all reefers have been mechanical for some time). Also, you said you have tons of cars. If you have lots of tank cars, you would want oil storage. If stock cars, then cattle pens (maybe as part of a packing plant). If reefers with ice hatches, either an ice platform or packing plant or both. If coal hoppers either a coal mine or a coal yard(common before mid 50s, although maybe less so in TX than in midwest, where most of us had coal furnaces until converted to natural gas in the early 50s). Research would be useful. See what industries the area you are modeling had in the era you are modeling. If period, maybe there are groups on Facebook that post old pictures of particular towns, or RRs.

By: ROBERT SCHWORM

ROBERT SCHWORM — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:41:20 +0000

Use masonite as a backboard and paint it sky blue to your liking. You can purchase backdrop scenes, or install flat buildings with clouds. If you are good at painting clouds – good. You can go on amazon and purchase cloud decals, one brand is very life like, and moveable around to your liking. For masonite seams, smear in Liquid Nails Foam for Projects from Home Depot. It stays plyable and dries fast, then paint. Seams will be invisable .