Lately I've been playing around with the placement of some of my buildings, and getting them "right" is not as easy as it sounds. I'll try to steer clear of the obvious references to women and our propensity for re-arranging the furniture -- oops! too late!
I had originally built a diorama of a midtown Toronto scene, and so when I built the layout I just transferred everything from the diorama. However, it seems that those buildings are making their way back off the layout as I experiment with 2 new Bachmann City Series buildings I've recently acquired. One, the Metropolitan Bldg is from a consignment sale at the LHS, already assembled - but not painted, necessitating a lot of time consuming window removal in order to paint it.
The other is still in kit form, that's the Trade Tower, which is both too big and too small. The depth is too much but the spread not enough, so I'm going to assemble it in a completely different way along the edge of the backdrop.
The streets are just paper for now, but I like how this scene is shaping up.
cheers
Val
I had originally built a diorama of a midtown Toronto scene, and so when I built the layout I just transferred everything from the diorama. However, it seems that those buildings are making their way back off the layout as I experiment with 2 new Bachmann City Series buildings I've recently acquired. One, the Metropolitan Bldg is from a consignment sale at the LHS, already assembled - but not painted, necessitating a lot of time consuming window removal in order to paint it.
The other is still in kit form, that's the Trade Tower, which is both too big and too small. The depth is too much but the spread not enough, so I'm going to assemble it in a completely different way along the edge of the backdrop.
The streets are just paper for now, but I like how this scene is shaping up.
cheers
Val