Install a Photo Backdrop on a Model Railroad Layout

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

See how I painted the sky on my backdrop before installing the photo background: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6vddoKBeMuSiqM

[@mikedurhan9941]

This is going to help me a lot. Thanks, Ron.

[@jhoodfysh]

Thanks Ron, that was a great set of videos.

[@fbrailroad4628]

Ron that looks like you need a lot of patients but, the results are great. The new addition is coming along thanks for sharing. David

[@vincenthuying98]

Looking great Ron!

[@kurtbeisner1997]

Another FANTASTIC video. Thanks !

[@ronaldjoyce7374]

Ron that looks amazing thus far, can’t wait to see the rest installed. Soooo tedious cutting around all those tree tops but like you said patients pays off and I say, patients is a virtue. Looking great, a lot of work.

[@HillBillyRailRoad]

The 3D look is outstanding thank you for sharing your layout

[@YourHomeTorontoRealEstate]

Thanks for your nice Videos, it is very enlightening, Waiting for your latest update. this is really my Favourite Channel! Brimley Woods

[@jeffstrains4014]

Removing the printed sky made a big difference! The scaling effect of the printed one was at the wrong angle your left looking down on a picture that is looking up. I believe if it was at a distance on an upper level it would look good. Nice video

[@mikehowey4869]

Great tutorial on backdrops.i have struggled with this in the past as i'm sure other modelers have.

[@pauldering195]

I much prefer your painted sky to the photo backdrop sky/clouds, nice work Ron.

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

I will blend th photo trees with modeled trees in front. I think the end product is going to look really good.

[@kyledillard3496]

I’m working on a new layout and I was just going to use the light blue painted wall as the backdrop but I really like what you did in the video. Thanks for the idea. As always you did a great job on this video.

[@wheezypalacemodels7726]

Great video Ron, well worth a watch, thank you…Chris

[@StanFerris]

Great tutorial Ron!

[@sparky107107]

that really adds a more 3D effect look to the back ground. nice tip/trick for sure

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

Thanks, Sparky. Thanks for watching.

[@normanrowe2831]

Hi ya Ron. Patience is the key here. Nicely done. See ya.

[@NissyJ-SAL]

Great video!

[@ElAlejandrorem]

Nice. I have in the same situation. I will do the same.

[@Vman7757]

What a very nice touch. Where the gap is. How will you fix that. The part over where the track comes through. I can see how it's really going to help the look.

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

I haven't fully decided what I'm going to do with that portal yet, but when I figure it out you will see it on video.

[@Vman7757]

@@RonsTrainsNThings I would add more background trees over the top of the hole. Then flank the track with trees so it looks like trains coming and going into the woods. Just a thought. Can't wait to see what you do.

[@jolliemark6294]

Looks great, I was planning on doing something similar but unfortunately no one make a background that represents the desert right for my southwest area I like s.d o picture of it will have to be what I use,, but great hits on how to do it was a help...thanks for sharing 👍👍👍😀

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

I don't know what you are looking for specifically, but with a Google search (desert background for model railroad) I saw several offered by hobby shops and small retailers.

[@jolliemark6294]

@@RonsTrainsNThings thanks, I'll look again

[@TheTrainFreak]

Photo backdrops is definitely the way to go for a more realistic look unless your like Bob Ross. I use Train Junkies as they have a vinyl option as well. - Jason

[@Lefthandedhammer]

Yep, that is what I am going to do, unless my cousin will do it.

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

ScentiKing also has a variety of media they can print on.

[@Lefthandedhammer]

I have been doing a n scale, but I am joining a ho club in Vancouver Washington.

[@N-Scale]

Nice tutorial but it is way easier to use doll house wall paper mucilage (paste) to put up backdrops. Such as Minigrafics brand or the like. IMHO

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

Thanks for that tip, Mike. I will have to give that a try.

[@N-Scale]

@@RonsTrainsNThings With it you can apply it to the backdrop, put it up, and then slide around into position. Then the excess can be squeegeed out and wiped off with water on a cloth.

[@harrywoodell7008]

Thanks for reality check on how long it takes to cut around and save the treetops and how quickly paper dulls blades.

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

Cutting around strictures with straight lines is MUCH faster.

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

good vid keep up the vids

[@ironmule]

Man that looks like a lot of extra work. it looks good but I'd just have to use the photo sky. I guess thats why some people have a youtube channel and some of us just watch.

[@richardmattingly7000]

Getting depth in a background can be quite easy if you use both theatrical tricks/photographers techniques in using them since they fool the eye since its flat plane gets broken up. Most backgrounds especially in photography run out onto the floor so there's no edge between it along with the foreground and it can even be used in reverse over the subect to create the same effect. In stage productions a series of cutouts/screens are put in front of one another because those subtle differences are 3D and it's why there used. Indeed since we have stereo vision which is why we have depth perception those differences in the background object stand out like holding your hands in front of you with one just a little closer to the other. The spacing can be quite close like a stack of cards and having 3-4 layers of cutouts can give depth to a background where just one doesn't. Animators used this in films like Snowhite/Sleeping Beauty over 75yrs ago and by subtlety moving each layer as a character move in front of it the effect was achieved where today it's done by computers. Having a mountain or trees etc not touch a background like a sky lets you see this effect as well as over or going going past it because its planes aren't flat. Even just cutting out and then attaching it to heavy card stock works nicely the spacing between these layers can be that narrow and the shadows it casts due to lighting can add to the effect even if it's little more than a outline to the next.

[@alexlile5561]

How do you get the lighting to show up so well in your videos?

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

That is all about camera settings and sometimes a touch of tweeking in the edit.

[@IMRROcom]

Why is no one commenting on Ron's video yet?

[@Lefthandedhammer]

Be patient, young child.

[@RonsTrainsNThings]

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