Welcome back, Candy! Nice scene! Very realistic too - right down to the bunch of people standing around a hole wondering how to fill it back in again. I really like the big masonry building in the background. Makes a very industrial feel to the scene. Good to have you back again, to inspire us.
Candy corn is a food group! It only gets harvested once a year and so is a precious commodity! It must have been a bumper crop for it to be transorted in open gon's!! Welcome back and thanks for the kudo's Candy! Coming from you and your weathering skills, it means something.
I had a lot of trouble with it. I found a source for figures with the piano but they are in 00 scale. So if I make a small diorama it won't matter
HO is 1:87 and OO is 1:76. That's about 10% difference in size, which is miniscule to the admiring viewer 3-4 feet away. If you have a visitor with a micrometer, throw them out immediately. Oh, and advise their companion to find another friend. Folks in our hobby don't need that level of criticism.
Candy corn-You either love it or hate it. I love it but can't have too much of it. My wife, on the other hand, gives it a big thumbs down. Good to see you back, BTW. Nice scene. As someone else pointed out,great industrial feel. You've also achieved nice depth on a narrow shelf.
Nice as always, Russell. Could you maybe share a little bit about how you arrange items on your photo module to create different scenes?
I have a plywood bench up in my loft where I arrange the different elements to create a scene. I have various backdrops mounted to foam core board that I set on an easel. Things like trees and telegraph poles have pins mounted on their bottoms that stick out 1/8" (3mm) or so that I can poke into the pieces of foam core board that are coated with ground foam scenic material. I have sections of ballasted track mounted on a base that I place on the scenic covered foam core pieces. A sheet of textured plastic "water" to throw in the mix whenever I feel like it as well as coarse ground foam to blend thing in. I just start mixing things around until I have something I like and then put trains on it and taking a photo. I have a shop light on a tripod stand with some theatrical gels to get the lighting I want.Then I use photoshop to cover up any seams between the elements and blend things together some more. Here are some of the diorama elements that I can use. There are more off screen such as building, various wood blocks to stack elements on for different levels and more track.
Why did a light bulb just turn on over my head? Sometimes it just takes a nudge to throw that light switch.
