number one dead giveaway

[faraway]

....wifi telegraph poles ....

Koos, I love that term. You should register a copyright on it

[Herc Driver]

For the Nscale world...one of the biggest giveaways is the dust, and the finger print remaining in the dust just before the picture is taken.

But then again, untouched dust looks like convincing weathering in Nscale.

[Ralph]

....wifi telegraph poles ....

Koos, I love that term. You should register a copyright on it

That IS funny!

[Tyson Rayles]

For the Nscale world...one of the biggest giveaways is the dust, and the finger print remaining in the dust just before the picture is taken.

But then again, untouched dust looks like convincing weathering in Nscale.

Actually I've seen that in every scale. While I've seen it more in HO then any other scale it's probably because there are more HO layouts than any other scale.

[eightyeightfan1]

For me , the giveaway is when you stare at the LP's for a half hour and they haven't moved .........

T

:hey:

If you had a 500 foot giant staring at you for a half hour.....Would you move?

When I photoshop my models into real life backgrounds, my biggest challenge is trying to get the lighting from the model to match the lighting from the real life natural light. That and real trees in the background coupled(no pun inteneded) with foam rudder bushes in the foreground...Big give away.

[Tyson Rayles]

To read this thread one gets the impression that there is no way to do realistic modeling?

[torikoos]

....wifi telegraph poles ....

Koos, I love that term. You should register a copyright on it

Anyone got the number of the copyright buro? :-)

It was one of those things, but my mind is slightly cross-wired at times, I guess that's why I like trains :-)

Koos

[Green_Elite_Cab]

To read this thread one gets the impression that there is no way to do realistic modeling?

The way I figure it, its all about distracting people. There are things that would be glaringly off if we were HO scale people walking about. However, we tend to take in things "from afar". our eyes are drawn to locomotives or neat little scenes and things of that nature. If we strike the right balance of stuff, the mind will fill in the gaps while it is distracted with the more spectacular aspects of a model or scene.

[ngauger]

If we strike the right balance of stuff, the mind will fill in the gaps while it is distracted with the more spectacular aspects of a model or scene.

.. and THAT is exactly how I learned to model..

An example In NASCAR:

About 30 years ago, Junior Johnson brought a car out to Darlington Raceway. It had a different design to the front bumper. It was well within the lines of being legal. Richard Petty asked him what he was doing? Why the metal??

Junior simply replied: "You see how NASCAR and everyone else is concentrating on it? I don't want them looking at anything else!"

The same can be said for modeling. My layout has gimmicks and fun stuff and noone seems to notice that it only has a few engines (three) and about 10 structures on it. The scenery and the structures take up most of the 13 X 9 layout.

Now granted, the footprints of each of these is 1 ft square or larger so it does look crowded. But there is not much detail at all...