Blending backdrop

[doctorwayne]

Here's an area on my layout where the layout and "sky" meet, and in a fairly obvious way, too. Between this brick power house...


...and the white icehouse, against the backdrop in the photo below...


...the backdrop curves around an outside corner of the room...


While the spot is not especially visible, I used the board fence and a few saplings to occupy any viewer's eye which might stray into this area. Lake Erie is somewhere beyond the fence, so I didn't bother with more trees painted onto the backdrop.


I seldom take train pictures in this area, as the only view of trains here is from the aisle - on a model railroad, with our tight curves, the outside of a curve is not usually a good place from which to view trains, with all those extra-wide gaps showing between the cars. The shop building and crane in the foreground not only block much of the view of the rounded sky, they also attract much more attention. The fence and trees hide the actual meeting of "ground" and "sky", but there's not really any way to conceal the curve in the backdrop. It does, I think, look better than a regular corner, though.

Wayne