The Carolina Sandhills Lines in HO Scale

[Steveruger45]

Hmmm.......Shades of Gray.  Perhaps.😉

[davefoxx]

DFF

[muktown128]

I don't know.  And, me being colorblind, I'm the last person that you want to ask to do a color match.

DFF

I'm color blind also, but having looked at colors and done color matching over the years as part of my job, I've learned how to distinguish colors. 

If someone can get me a couple of color chips, I can measure them and determine the color difference on one of our several colorimeters / spectophotometers where I work.  If someone can provide the Fed Std # for Light Ghost Gray, I can probably find a chip of that color.

Scott

[garethashenden]

If someone can get me a couple of color chips, I can measure them and determine the color difference on one of our several colorimeters / spectophotometers where I work.  If someone can provide the Fed Std # for Light Ghost Gray, I can probably find a chip of that color.

Scott

http://www.colorserver.net/showcolor.asp?fs=36495

[davefoxx]

Tonight, I cut and whittled a piece of 0.060” black styrene to form the highway on the other side of the bridge.  A piece of cork roadbed at the backdrop shimmed the road perfectly, so it’s flush where it meets the bridge.  Not obvious in this photo, because it’s unpainted, black styrene, the edge of the styrene needs to be tweaked to fit up to the bridge with little to no gap.



DFF

[Chris333]

Looks like the perfect spot for a photo backdrop.

[Point353]

Looks like the perfect spot for a photo backdrop.

Or a mirror.

[Vince P]

Following with intent interest

[Chris333]

Or a mirror.

Or a coyote and a paint bucket.

[Chris333]

[pedro]

Dave- great bridge!

What is the part number of the model master “light aircraft gray” you used? FS number? I’m looking through the Testor’s MM Technical Guide ref. book and I see “aircraft gray” and “light gray” but no “light aircraft gray.” There are cross-reference charts in that book that provide equivalents in other brands including acrylics for many of the colors in the MM line. (R.I.P.)

[davefoxx]

Or a coyote and a paint bucket.

Bwahahahahaha!!!

[davefoxx]

Thanks for the responses, guys!  I had considered a mirror first, but I now figure that the reflection might show two bridges.  Although twin bridges are not unheard of, any vehicles placed to disguise the backdrop would be reflected, and that won't look good.  So, a photo backdrop tucked in behind the trees seems like the way to go.  Unfortunately, the picture above would be a b!tch to cut out around those line poles, but my main concern is finding something that blends in with my trees.  I ain't no Dave Vollmer, who has beautifully managed to blend colors between his 3D scenery and his backdrops.  But, I'll try to put something in there.  The picture above is a good start, but for the line poles.

DFF

[nkalanaga]

If you could alter the cables on the right side to go to the right, instead of toward the viewer, they'd be hidden behind your foreground trees.  None of the other wires come "out of" the picture, so they could be left, unless your modeled location has no wires.

[CRL]

The only well executed mirror scene I’ve encountered was at the end of some stub yard tracks with the top of the mirror hidden by a pipe rack bridge over the tracks. The viewing angle was controlled by buildings on each side.

Roads going off layout are very difficult to pull off. The road needs an excuse to go down grade to disappear at the intersection of the background, with the road reappearing on the photo off in the distance.