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Hi N5CJonny!

Thanks for your comments.

You found some pretty cool flats to use.

As for the use of angles, some of the things I learned about them when experimenting:

* For best effect when being viewed in person, at the minimum, the top of the building needs to be at eye level, higher than eye level is even better. Being above eye level isn't a problem on this small computer room layout, for the top of my bench work stands 58" above floor level. (I'm 6'1" for now.  )

* The steeper the angle, the better the effect when viewed from other perspectives.

* Any buildings opposite the effect need to use the same vanishing point. Otherwise the geometry looks wrong and the eye will quickly notice the inconsistency. (Humans are very geometric in our viewing input. Some more than others.)

A composite photo I just threw together to illustrate:

Angles

Offer my "PhotoFlats" commercially...

That was originally in the thought process, but I bogged down in regards to instructional tutorials, distribution issues, etc. It started getting to be a lot of "work". I learned from my past commissioned years (custom painting/decal/weathering work on engines/rolling stock, commissioned structure assembly/painting/weathering, commercial layout construction/installation, etc) that turning my hobby into work is not a good thing. (I ended up burned-out with the model railroading hobby for about a year or more.)

SO... even though I've own the "photoflats.net" domain for years (will renew again in Oct)... I don't know if I'll ever do anything with it commercially.

Well, I'll bet that's more than you wanted to read.

I tend to be a "bit" verbose.

Andre

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