@Len
I own the great book on John Allen's famous layout. He successfully
applied several techniques to extend the view on a very large layout.
This includes the use of mirrors. Some of these principles were later
adopted by George Sellios. However, these techniques rather work for
very big layouts.
@Bill
In my sense, small does not just mean portable but 'very small', i.e.,
rather micro layouts as promoted by Carl Arendt.
@Charles
I know these tricks of using backdrops as dividers to create
completely separated scenes on the the same layout. However, that's
not what I had in mind. For completely separated scenes, I would
simply build separate dioramas. My objective is to have one scene that
can by viewed at different angles, so I can use the same scene for
very different photo settings. See the attached draft of a very small
scene. Maybe a cramped industrial district or something like that. A
goog example in a much bigger scale are the photo dioramas of
Guilherme Holtz, see You
will have to look very hard to see that most of the photos were taken
on the same diorama.
Joern
