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I thought it was a miss spelling, but then it was used several times, but what is a back round?
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The rounded version of a back ground. Half rounds and quarter rounds being most common.
What kind of turd? Not those gross dried up white ones that you see around goose ponds... yuck!
I made a post on another forum a while back about backdrops.
My biggest beefs with backgrounds are the inclusion of near-field objects, and when actual scenery items cast shadows onto the background image. Both of these conditions make the background stick out like a sore thumb, and detract from what's on the layout. Motley's backgrounds look exceptionally good, but that's pretty freaking rare, and likely took considerable planning.
LoudMusic said:I was outdoors recently doing something (can't recall what it was) in a wide open space looking at the sky and how it met the ground at the horizon and began thinking about layout backdrops. I had what can't possibly be a new revelation but it seemed both obvious and revolutionary to me. Train layouts' backdrops are almost always vertical panels with 'sky' painted on them. But nothing else in the hobby is done this way. In reality the sky is the ceiling that never meets the ground which is the floor. Instead they curve the same direction (down) and the ground eventually hides the sky. Why, then, do we make skies that are perpendicular to, and stick straight out of, our grounds? Well that's part of 'modeling' and creating an 'illusion'. But again, we as modelers try our best to make our models as like the real thing as possible avoiding illusions and recreating reality in miniature.
So, do any of you attempt to recreate the sky closer to the real thing (without cutting giant holes in your house)? I imagine it would be something like the following, with traditional backdrops on the left and the more realistic horizon backdrop on the right.
I'd be interested in seeing pictures anyone has of their layout or dioramas done this way. Obviously there would be great difficulties in corners and the general increased space requirements not to mention the greatly increased construction costs. But the end result would surely be greater than the sum of its parts.
My biggest beefs with backgrounds are the inclusion of near-field objects, and when actual scenery items cast shadows onto the background image. Both of these conditions make the background stick out like a sore thumb, and detract from what's on the layout. Motley's backgrounds look exceptionally good, but that's pretty freaking rare, and likely took considerable planning.
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