A Little More Progress On The Poor Fork RR
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Well, Charlie, You have to start someplace and that looks as good as any. I like those buildings. Lets see some more as you progress.
Thanks SD90!
Well, I've been doing a lot of thinking, & rethinking about the town of Glasgow Jct.
I think what I originally pictured in my head was a bustling town, with streets, businesses, residences...but then I had to consider...this is a region of Appalachia in the early 30's..."bustling" is not an adjective that applies here.
It occured to me that a few paved roads started to reach into the area in the 1930's, due mainly to FDR's WPA, & CCC programs. So I thought I would make a curved stretch of highway cutting across the RR here at the jct.
I'm going to call this stretch of road State Highway 88 (gotcha Ed!
)
Along this curve in the road, there will be a couple of houses, a hardware business, a tavern, & an abandoned iron works. In addition, there will be the two main on-line RR customers, a feed & seed co. & a lumber mill.
This will be the extent of Glasgow Jct. (unless I change my mind again... )
Well, I've been doing a lot of thinking, & rethinking about the town of Glasgow Jct.
I think what I originally pictured in my head was a bustling town, with streets, businesses, residences...but then I had to consider...this is a region of Appalachia in the early 30's..."bustling" is not an adjective that applies here.
It occured to me that a few paved roads started to reach into the area in the 1930's, due mainly to FDR's WPA, & CCC programs. So I thought I would make a curved stretch of highway cutting across the RR here at the jct.
I'm going to call this stretch of road State Highway 88 (gotcha Ed!
)Along this curve in the road, there will be a couple of houses, a hardware business, a tavern, & an abandoned iron works. In addition, there will be the two main on-line RR customers, a feed & seed co. & a lumber mill.
This will be the extent of Glasgow Jct. (unless I change my mind again...
)
I also like the buildings Charlie,, And the way you put them together in the first shot, I could see the street and trees and JCT shaping up
Dont stop now!!!!
Dont stop now!!!!
Thanks guys!
I'm still playing around with it...
The picture at the top of the thread was where I just arranged some structures in the available space...after spending some time just kinda staring at it (a lot of my modeling time is spent this way ), It occured to me that the town had too much of a billiard table look to it...too flat ! This is, after all, a mountain town, on a mountain RR. Even though it is built on a flat table, it doesn't have to look like it!
So I took some scraps of foam, & some different thicknesses of cardboard, & put the structures at different elevations, getting gradually higher toward the backdrop...The road, also, will climb, as it curves into the backdrop, & disappear into the trees. (hopefully!)
I'm still playing around with it...
The picture at the top of the thread was where I just arranged some structures in the available space...after spending some time just kinda staring at it (a lot of my modeling time is spent this way
), It occured to me that the town had too much of a billiard table look to it...too flat ! This is, after all, a mountain town, on a mountain RR. Even though it is built on a flat table, it doesn't have to look like it!So I took some scraps of foam, & some different thicknesses of cardboard, & put the structures at different elevations, getting gradually higher toward the backdrop...The road, also, will climb, as it curves into the backdrop, & disappear into the trees. (hopefully!)
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A real benefit of this hobby is you can make the town flat or hilly as you choose and there is always a prototype that will look like it.
Thank goodness for small town America.
Thank goodness for small town America.
I agree with Robin, Charlie. I have a one street town, then planted a row or trees across the street from them. I got most of the trees to big and you can't see the town so will have to change them to smaller trees.
If you don't like it, change it.
If you don't like it, change it.
Better And Better...
Excellent idea to have the town on a hill, Charlie. Some of the back buildings were obscured in the first picture. A windy uphill road should also lead the viewer's eye through the town, I suspect. Are you going to try a little forced perspective with regard to building sizes, too?
Excellent idea to have the town on a hill, Charlie. Some of the back buildings were obscured in the first picture. A windy uphill road should also lead the viewer's eye through the town, I suspect. Are you going to try a little forced perspective with regard to building sizes, too?