Wisconsin Central - Heritage Division

[w neal]

No need really. I've always owned them. 

(Although, I did paint up a couple more and sold them to a friend.)

[Rabidchipmoose]

I'm thinking the hay fever fields look great.  I had recently been admiring them in real life and thing you did a great job catching the flavor.  Also, give the GBW locos a hug for me....

[w neal]

More lineside poles. Not sure how I feel about them. I was always used to certain scenes being more "natural" looking. Now suddenly there is this element of regulated space in them. Certainly, the prototype demands them. I dunno, I guess its just me. 






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[Kev1340]

Your final photo, I think I agree looks better without the pole on the road side. The others, in my opinion the poles add to the scene.

Cheers,

Kev

[svedblen]

Nothing is wrong with the poles. Of course you shall keep them!

/Lennart

[Philip H]

Your final photo, I think I agree looks better without the pole on the road side. The others, in my opinion the poles add to the scene.

Cheers,

Kev

+1

[packers#1]

I like the final pic with the pole...but I think it'd look better without the lineside pole there and just a single power pole (no cross arms).
With the others, I really like the addition of the poles; like you said, there's some regulated space, which contrasts nicely with the wilderness

[w neal]

Pole relocated. For some reason, I thought the railroad might have chosen to route the lines up and over the road, rather than have crowding issues at trackside. It did look a bit silly however. I did my best to squeeze it in trackside. Thanks all! Now its time to string more lines.

[w neal]

Tried to paint some background to represent distant fields. Well, I'm no Danneman. But with the addition of some 3-D foreground/background trees it works for me - mostly. The problem, to me, is that there are no colors from the foreground fields in the backdrop. There is no real blending of the two elements in terms of colors - as Danneman has taught me. I think thats the reason I have yet to see a photo backdrop that has beed rendered well.

[conrailthomas519]

In order to get the blending color into the back drop. You would have to custom mix your paint colors by matching them to the forground materials.

[kc9jts]

Pole relocated. For some reason, I thought the railroad might have chosen to route the lines up and over the road, rather than have crowding issues at trackside. It did look a bit silly however. I did my best to squeeze it in trackside. Thanks all! Now its time to string more lines.

I think that looks better with the pole at track level; considering that it was likely installed well before the overpass was ever built (in a real world scenario).

NBT

[w neal]

In order to get the blending color into the back drop. You would have to custom mix your paint colors by matching them to the forground materials.

Yeah, I realize that. Right now, I'm just not sure I want to go back and repaint the scene.

[w neal]

I planned a portion of my mainline to pass behind the forest and only "peek" out at river crossings. While this goes against much of the modeling grain, I enjoy the view. It reminds me of many railfaning trips. Also, it emphasizes how the trains are sometimes dominated, or only pass through, the wilderness. It bodes well for highlighting that the environs are indeed dominated by trees.

My forest is modeled in cross section so that one has a nice view under the canopy. I have had to ask more than one visitor to look under the canopy to see the train in the 10 or so feet that I tried this effect.. But then, just hearing the train behind the canopy begs some to seek a way to view it.

The view above:







Crouch just a little:

[conrailthomas519]

I like it alot! There are alot of times we cannot view the trains while out railfanning because of natural view blocks. This scene captures just that.

[Kev1340]

Pole relocated. For some reason, I thought the railroad might have chosen to route the lines up and over the road, rather than have crowding issues at trackside. It did look a bit silly however. I did my best to squeeze it in trackside. Thanks all! Now its time to string more lines.

I'm not certain of US practice as I've not had the opportunity to observe it, but here in the UK poles tend to reduce in height at the approach to an over bridge, then the lines are mounted to the side of the bridge, or indeed tunnel, until returning to poles on the far side.

Cheers,

Kev