Thanks Mark, Jim and Phil, glad you like the scenes. Phil commented earlier about 'scenes to backdrops'. It is a challenge, but I try to make everything blend and tie together as best as I can with the space provided due to large radius curves. The photo below is my version of the Rogers Pass 'Cannaught Tunnel' , a scene transition located under the stairwell. To put things into perspective, I only had room to compress this area into 1 foot wide to also allow for human passage and include a wide sweeping curve just beyond , ( watch your head clearance) . This area required the scenery to take a vertical stance! But tunnels from one scene ''partition'' to another do work. Concealing them I sometimes use a little common trick with highway overpasses in those locations. I've included a photo showing the 'commuter stop' of Eagle Pass connecting the outskirts to the city. The roundhouse walls are a combination of 'foam core' and a 3 window wall casting from an old Korber kit of the Lionel Factory. I made a rubber mold of one wall and cast it in a 2 part ''plastic resin'' by Alumilite. Their moto, liquid to plastic in minutes, stands to hold its meaning. Any bridge girders seen are courtesy of a similar made casting offered through Micro Mark. The turntable bridge side are the same casting . Finally, I need to ask Jim, the Delorean you spoke of, are we talking the '' 1/43 model produced or a Prototype in a garage ? ''
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