Holes in the Wall

[UP4-8-8-4]

    Great thread !
Lots of fantistic pics here, and great works.
I put holes in walls to extend a layout to another room in my old house basement layout.  Every hole cut I built mountains on both sides with tunnels to match each side. The rest of the basement was the X's !
After three divorces and remaining single these past 13 years, my new house basement is all mine ---------- 
So plans will be for many tunnels through the walls at different heights. One advantage is the long wall I will be going through from the large finished section of the basement to the large unfinish back room is that it isn't finished on the back side. No accidential cutting electrical wireing or anything.




Ernie

[PAL_Houston]

I like the idea of putting the whole bridge through the hole.  How about framing the structure with a mirror so you see the outside of it in reflection, but then have over-grown river-bank trees growing close to the bridge, so the mirror is not too obvious.  ...

...yeah.  Seems like sometime in the last week or 2 I saw someone write about 5-mil silvered mylar sheet used as a front-surface mirror...kind of expensive but not too expensive to test out in a mock up.    Hmm....

Like I said, keep those ideas coming!!!!

[mmagliaro]

I think the bridge-through-the-wall idea is very clever and inventive.
But it still seems to me that it would be much easier, and just as effective, to put
some trees along the foreground edge of the benchwork.  They make a darn effective viewblock
for a track punching through a hole.

Here's one:
Forget the foreground stuff like the trestle.  That whole scene back there with the trees blocking the fact
that the tracks go through the backdrop is only 13" deep.


How high off the floor is your benchwork?  That's another factor.  The higher it is, the easier it's going to be to
conceal that hole.

[PAL_Houston]

After multiple tries and some great suggestions from the "brain-trust", here is  a shot of GP-7 #250 leading the Galena Turn onto the main at Galena Jct., with my "tromp-d'oeil" in the background.



This will look even better after ballasting....but you know how much I love ballasting, don't you? 

[nkalanaga]

Looks good to me!

[Lemosteam]

That image behind the bridge is VERY believable!  I am vrey impressed with this innovation, I think it looks great.

[Scottl]

That is a very believable scene- a clever use of enough bridge and the picture background to fool the eye.  Excellent work.

[Flatrat]

"After multiple tries and some great suggestions from the "brain-trust", here is  a shot of GP-7 #250 leading the Galena Turn onto the main at Galena Jct., with my "tromp-d'oeil" in the background."

"brain trust"? Wow. That's magnanimous.

I really like the effect of the photo you found, the foreshortening of the image coupled with the other background treatments you've done makes the bridge's vanishing point very believeable. Will you be able to make the hole through the wall the size of the opening in the bridge photo large enough for trains to pass through? The last photo looks great!! Keep the progress reports coming.

From now on we may have to refer to you as "Trompe-Louie"

Scott