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Visual tricks: all of these disguise the fact that my "Gotham" is 6 feet square.  It is more necessary to do this, the smaller the layout.  And, excessive trackage does NOT hide the fact that it is a small caricature of real scenes.

1.  Background or "front only" buildings around the edges.  Wall backdrops.

2.  Try to simulate a city by making it impossible to look through the layout from any vantage point.  So, you use streets that zig zag,  and no buildings that can be seen through (blanked windows or lighted interiors) and place the taller buildings so as to block the line of sight.

3.  Mirrors- a mirror that is not in the direct line of sight visually doubles the size of whatever is in front of it.

4.  Put something to distract the eye from things that are not part of the scene- a support pole in the basement?? Paint it flat black, then build a 6" square X 7 story building around it, or have the "ground" slope up to the building making it even higher up the ugly pole.  Put detailed scenes on a lower, adjoining section next to the pole, to draw the eye away from the pole.

5.  Details- the more detail in the layout, the less the viewer can notice how "small" it really is.  Have lighted buildings with interiors, so the viewer (voyeur) looks into the buildings instead of at the storage shelves of your train room.   Have shadows of people showing through the shades.  Distract the viewer with great-looking vehicles, or people doing things as in real life - a car pulled over by a police car, and the cop writing the ticket- the viewer won't see the support pole behind the scene. 

 

 

 

Last edited by Mike Wyatt

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