Background scenery

 

 

 

 

 Fig. 1 - we could win our friend Martin to paint our backgrounds. Martin paints, besides his normal job, landscape paintings with oil colors. He has already painted the railroad cellar of our club. On our wooden panels he uses normal acrylic paints. On this picture (after completely coloring the board with blue) it is the turn of the cloud formations in several layers. The effect is already great. However, it's also an enormous time commitment. The Lotzburgh side he wants to paint with oil paints.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 2 - Here are two finished backgrounds on the layout. For us, beautiful. To keep the perspectives, a cut part of the fence, not yet painted, is set up next to the hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 3 - View of our bakery with finished background. The weathered Big-Boy now looks especially good, of course.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 4 - Behind the module around bread and grain, it transitions to our town of Dakota. Particularly tricky for background painting on this module is incorporating the road from the bridge into the town. Here's Martin's pencil sketch. The road disappears to the right behind the buildings.

 

 

 

Fig. 5 - The sketch transferred to the board with pencil strokes.

 

 

 

 

 Fig. 6 - The situation at the bridge. Martin has applied the approximate contours of the buildings with black! The buildings and everything that goes with them will now be brought out with lighter and lighter colors. We are excited. Soon it goes on. The thousand things in the foreground are not part of the layout! Andy's basement is full.

 

 

 

 

Fig. 7 - Now the contours are painted out. The street disappears between a row of houses to the right. The semi-relief factory buildings find their continuation on the background.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 8 - Situation at the bridge, which was removed here. The house in the foreground still lacks the final painting.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 9 - Now the building facade is finished. An animation by advertising etc. is still missing. Also the transitions between the edge of the plant and the background still need to be worked on. Bushes, greenery etc.

 

 

 

 

Fig. 10 - The other production halls are also painted behind the real Habia Cable buildings.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 11 - With the bridge in place. The photo perspective simulates a tilted image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 12 - Martin also sacrificed a precious vacation day for us and painted all backgrounds for the existing modules of the Lotzburgh side. Many thanks. Painting clouds is not so easy. Some working steps are necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 13 - one more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 14 - Background on the loading platform.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 15 - At the railroad crossing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 16 - Behind the Houses---- yeah, and a craft by Andy. From an unpainted kit, a Southern-Pacific caboose was made for Bernd and a New York Central caboose for Dirk. The paint procurement for the NYC was difficult. Now the wet sliders with the logos are missing. They are ordered.

 

 

 

 

Fig. 17 - Behind the coal dealer----and the SD40-2 of the EMD for Bernd`s BL leasing is ready! Our Skippy is also back and on the 1st test drive.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 18 - Martin was back to paint the last 4 backgrounds of the Lotzburgh side. Wonderful how he creates the adjustment and thus creates the "width".

 

 

 

 

Fig. 19 - The finished background from Fig. 18 installed.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 20 - The finished background on the memory module.

 

 

 

 

Fig. 21 - and on the "Scissors Crossing module". Thank you Martin!