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Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:38:53 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Darrow wrote:
Here's a sneak peek at the mountain module I'm making for IndyLUG/Central
Indiana LTC's display at this years Children's & Parents Expo Feb 19,20 & 21 at
the Indiana State Fairgrounds.  There are three train loops and the lower two
can run independantly or be switched to connect with the rest of the club's
layout.
I've still got a lot of details to add however here's what's done so far:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1088425
and once moderated
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=115505
Brian Darrow

It's big, it's cool, and there's lots to like. The roadway and parking lot, for
example are really neat. Always glad to see people building mountains.

Spotlighted!

I have a couple of bones to pick though...

Water isn't blue. I think it's much more effective to do water with clear or
transblue elements...

Snow on top? I think this tends to make mountains look "Disneyish", even with
selective compression our mountains are NEVER big enough to have a distinct,
visible snow line... That sort of line tends to only be visible at much farther
distances. This mountain isn't high enough to justify snow at the top and non
snow at the bottom.

Those are nits though, I really like this.



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  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IBCp8t.3Co@lugnet.com... (...) Hmm, I'm calling BS here. There is a river in Colorado with so much of a certain kind of mineral content in it that the water is indeed blue. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
snipped (...) Odd you should say this. I really like the look of the blue water cascading down the mountain and the way the light reflects off the sloped bricks. It's going to take a tall, tall mountain to really justify a snow cap. Wouldn't you (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
(...) Here in Colorado, we get frozen waterfalls that are blue, bright vivid gorgeous blue. It's amazing. Agreed about the snow line- better to have a patch of snow in a gulley or valley- a little tiny glacier. Beautiful work- I'm jealous! I don't (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
(...) Why is a "Disneyish" bad? You make it seem that non-real world accurate scene elements are bad and should never be modelled. I like the look of a "Disneylike" exaggerated scene, maybe that's why I like the Disney parks so much. -Orion (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
(...) Oh come on people, Lar was expressing his *opinion*. But Lar, I gotta say, water is painted blue on most of the layouts I've seen, scale MR or not. An example: (URL) on our M>ltc layout (URL) snow tipped mountain was only barely taller than (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)

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  A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
Here's a sneak peek at the mountain module I'm making for IndyLUG/Central Indiana LTC's display at this years Children's & Parents Expo Feb 19,20 & 21 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. There are three train loops and the lower two can run (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug) !! 

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