A number of articles have been written featuring backdrops in a small layout, placed so that each side can have drastically different themes. Backdrop could be painted or photo print plus building flats.?
A Y shaped backdrop arrangement in basically a circle of track would provide three settings. The track could exit one scene by entering a tunnel and enter the next scene by exiting a warehouse, for example.?
The British seem to focus a lot on exhibition layouts, which are basic ovals with staging tracks behind backdrops.?
Charles?
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On Oct 2, 2018, at 10:29 AM, J?rn Pachl <
jrnp25152@...> wrote:
Over the years, I built several small layouts, some of them even featured by Carl Arendt, but also some non-operational dioramas for exhibitions and to be used for photo scenes. Lately, model railway photography has become a major issue in my hobby, also by arranging temporary photo scenes that are combined with virtual backgrounds (see .
I'm just thinking about a new layout project. What I have in mind is to build a small layout with the main objective to be used for photo scenes. It can be operational, but not necessarily. Most layouts and dioramas are designed in a way that they should be viewed from just one side. What I'm looking for is an idea of how to design a layout in a way that it can be viewed from different angles providing the viewer with quite different impressions of that scene. Maybe similar like the famous designers of old English parks where you just walk a short distance but get a completely different picture of the landscape. Is anybody aware of of any articles dealing with that aspect of layout design?
Joern
