Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Adding a backscene has made a big difference

I decided I didn't like the black background of the guitar case and decided the best way to fix this was with a backscene. Normally I'm quite dismissive of the concept because its very easy to have a background that doesn't fit very well. Either because of different colours, features not lining up, wrong style or just generally not feeling right. So I was a bit wary that I was going to make the layout look worse.

To my knowledge you can't buy printed backscenes in T scale. So my plan was to find a free one on the internet and scale it down until it looked right and print it off myself. My initial backscene sort of looked ok but it just didn't feel right. It had a river and a city centre with lots of buildings. So I went searching again and found another and printed that. I am very pleased with the outcome. It has greenery in the perfect spots for where my hills begin either side, its not distracting and the buildings fit very well with with my buildings directly in front of it. The only downside is there is a gravestone on the foreground which looks enormous to scale, so I'll have to hide it with trees or something. Either was I'm very happy with the result, it lightens the layout up nicely and gives a sense of depth.




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  1. This is so cool! I've been thinking about trying out a tiny T Gauge layout, and this project it totally inspiring. Do you find you have to keep the case perfectly level for the trains to run successfully?

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    1. You should try it! It's a fun challenge.
      As for flatness, it's not a problem at all. The wheels in the drive units are magnetic for adhesion and picking up power. They can even run upside down. The only problem I've had was where I hadn't laid the track properly and there were vertical kinks in it, but that only happened once.

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