Wisconsin Central - Heritage Division

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Case study in “less is more” Midwest modeling. Love it. Simplicity rules!

It's one of the things I really love about this. Truly an inspiration.

[chuck geiger]

Awesome scene!

[basementcalling]

It's one of the things I really love about this. Truly an inspiration.

Fantastic work.

Only 1 tree, no wonder it's a scene Ed loves.

[w neal]

Golly. Awfully kind of you fellas. I dunno, there are many fantastic modelers on this site. I'm not qualified. I have much to learn.

I do enjoy the advantages of N scale though. We have room to model the dull in between our busier scenes. I try to exploit this where I can. As the Reid brothers labeled it; "spaciousness".

[w neal]

I have blabbed about this before, forgive me. And kindly ignore the accumulated junk on the unfinished lower level.

Here is one of my favorite expansive-like scenes. Actually, its just one portion of it. At the "bend" in one aisle, I decided to simulate tracks passing through woods; violating a cardinal layout rule, I purposely placed trees in front of the tracks. I was trying to emphasize what characterizes many places in the Midwest that tracks pass through. One has to puposely stoop a bit under the forrest canopy to see the train. It is fun to watch it pop out of the woods at the river crossings. My point? In N scale, we have more freedom for this kind of scene.

[CRL]

I have blabbed about this before, forgive me. And kindly ignore the accumulated junk on the unfinished lower level.

Here is one of my favorite expansive-like scenes. Actually, its just one portion of it. At the "bend" in one aisle, I decided to simulate tracks passing through woods; violating a cardinal layout rule, I purposely placed trees in front of the tracks. I was trying to emphasize what characterizes many places in the Midwest that tracks pass through. One has to puposely stoop a bit under the forrest canopy to see the train. It is fun to watch it pop out of the woods at the river crossings. My point? In N scale, we have more freedom for this kind of scene.

I don’t think you violated any rule about foreground trees & buildings. If anything, you addressed a mistake many modelers make by always having the track close to the front of the layout and with no scenery or the train to duck behind.

[Pomperaugrr]

I don’t think you violated any rule about foreground trees & buildings. If anything, you addressed a mistake many modelers make by always having the track close to the front of the layout and with no scenery or the train to duck behind.

I completely agree about the foreground trees.  I like having the train disappear through the trees.  It seems more realistic to my eye and acts as a great scene separation method.  I think it adds distance between scenes, compared to track running along the front edge of the world all of the time.

Eric

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I completely agree about the foreground trees.  I like having the train disappear through the trees.  It seems more realistic to my eye and acts as a great scene separation method.  I think it adds distance between scenes, compared to track running along the front edge of the world all of the time.

Eric

Agreed.

And here's something else to think about... it's pretty easy to extend a scene into the distance with a photo backdrop. But there are no such things as photo foregrounds.

[MVW]

Agreed.

And here's something else to think about... it's pretty easy to extend a scene into the distance with a photo backdrop. But there are no such things as photo foregrounds.

It's like you blew my freakin' mind, man. 

Jim

[w neal]

A bit of drybrushing to the rescue. Its early fall on my layout so a brighter colour for the needles since they have recently fallen.

[w neal]

Spaciousness...

[LIRR]

Nicely done....

[w neal]

More work to be done above

[btrain]

Spaciousness...

If Edward Hopper was alive today, he'd paint a scene just like that!

[w neal]