The last update (for now)...
Last summer, this was how the far side of the layout looked. I had stapled grass strips to the back risers to try to add depth to the scene. A start, but the trains and plywood were still showing in the background.
The start of the solution- background buildings! The brick building on the left was made up from
DPM modular components, it will be a tooling company. The other building is a
Walthers Armstrong Electric background building kit. Neither one is finished yet, but these are the earliest views.
Another view of the two buildings. The tooling company building only has its back half up, while the Armstrong building is still missing its windows! I have, however, relocated the grass mat strips up to the very top of the foam boards the buildings are sitting on. This
definitely added depth to the scene, as now it appears the buildings sit on the top of a hill (the town is called
Hillsdale, after all).
Now, the tooling company building has both halves together, and the Armstrong building has its windows!
Finally, I added a small section of grass matting to the space between the buildings, placed a section of roadway behind them, and placed a row of trees beside the track at the back of the layout, with this effect. The gaping hole in the Armstrong building will be filled when I get another kit; then an
extension is planned. And the tooling company building still needs more work to complete it. More buildings will probably be added, along with scenery, to hide the rear
trackage from view. And the Bailey Building now has another Budweiser billboard on the roof!
Last summer, this was how the far side of the layout looked. I had stapled grass strips to the back risers to try to add depth to the scene. A start, but the trains and plywood were still showing in the background.
The start of the solution- background buildings! The brick building on the left was made up from DPM modular components, it will be a tooling company. The other building is a Walthers Armstrong Electric background building kit. Neither one is finished yet, but these are the earliest views.
Another view of the two buildings. The tooling company building only has its back half up, while the Armstrong building is still missing its windows! I have, however, relocated the grass mat strips up to the very top of the foam boards the buildings are sitting on. This definitely added depth to the scene, as now it appears the buildings sit on the top of a hill (the town is called Hillsdale, after all).
Now, the tooling company building has both halves together, and the Armstrong building has its windows!
Finally, I added a small section of grass matting to the space between the buildings, placed a section of roadway behind them, and placed a row of trees beside the track at the back of the layout, with this effect. The gaping hole in the Armstrong building will be filled when I get another kit; then an extension is planned. And the tooling company building still needs more work to complete it. More buildings will probably be added, along with scenery, to hide the rear trackage from view. And the Bailey Building now has another Budweiser billboard on the roof!
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