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Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug
Date: 
Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:57:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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.

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:
http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=62303

Note on our M>ltc layout http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1025139
Paul's snow tipped mountain was only barely taller than Teunis' wooded hill,
which was actually LOWER than his train shed. But I didn't get a single comment
about scale from either the model railroaders there or the public.

My opinion? I'm happy to see "selective compression" on scenery as well as
trains, and most people don't even seem to notice.

ROSCO



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  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
(...) (URL) That appears to be on a backdrop, am I missing where the water is on the scenery? MR here in the states seems to run an article about how to do polyurethane (clear) water with fair frequency so I 'm not sure I agree with your limited (...) (19 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)

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  Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
 
(...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)  

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