Very nice work Mark(???). You should consider building a module or two. (Wink) As usuall great scenery. The water looks like a crock just peaked out and the leaves do look good. The biggest take from your pix is the way your plastic (assumption) models look like metal and reflect the dull finishes depicted as prototypes would.
Thanks John. Candy that module is something else! I think it looks very natural with the train tracks sandwiched between all those buildings. Will you add more telephone wires? It's not a job I enjoy. Did you use silk thread? Mike
Hi Thomas. I have short single triphosphor fluoros hanging from the ceiling, spaced about 3ft apart. To that I add 500watt floodlights. Sometimes I use just one, sometimes the two. edit: my dad wired in a switch so I can turn one off. They're mounted on a stand and can be raised lowered and swivelled. In both of those photos I kept the lights down low on the stand. I wanted a cast shadow from the blue boxcar in the first shot. When trying for cast shadows I tend to aim one of the floodlights up high - maybe at the ceiling or the backdrop sky - to avoid getting double shadows from two light sources. The light which is aimed high will bounce light back into the scene so it's still useful to leave it switched on. In the bridge photo I used only one floodlight, mounted low on the stand but aimed upwards towards the backdrop sky, so the loco and hopper only caught the edge of its beam, which reduced the glare on their sides. No doubt there was a shadow on the backdrop off to the right somewhere out of shot. I hope that makes sense and is some help. I'm not an expert - it's just what I do. Mike P.S. the lights get extremely hot and they can also damage your eyes.
