Amazing backdrops - Have a look

Geez, those are great...absolutely beautiful!  Doesn't get much better than that.  Thanks of posting.

- Mike

Those are beauties! I watched a couple more videos; amazing depth of field. I'm wondering if some of it is green-screen projection, as some of it is seen "under" the layout. Whatever the method, it looks great.

Also, that must have been a chilly ride on the rear of the tender!

In the comments under the video, its author mentions that he uses a green screen technique.  I tried doing this a year ago, and repeatedly found that reflections of the green off shiny locomotives, tank cars, rails, etc. made them look transparent.  It's very hard to get the lighting right, so that there aren't green reflections (or green as part of livery paint) that destroy the illusion.

   Bob A.

I was wondering if there was some type of rear projection technique or as you mention about the green (blue?) screen. In latter part you can clearly see that there are paper photo backdrops when viewed from the side but the quality is far less.

Just finished watching some more video where the layout was modular and you could clearly see that the background was added to the video yet was still very effective.

 What a great idea. You could change the back ground as often as you change

 your trains. would also be great for seasonal changes.  I wonder what the cost would be ?

Backdrop notwithstanding, what really caught my attention was the shrieking chuffing sound of the HO locomotive. It prompted me to look at others, so on YouTube I found an Athearn, an MTH, and a Rivarossi loco. Honestly, when compared to our Lionel and MTH O-Gauge sounds, the HO's sound sick. I am so glad I 'switched' to O-Gauge 

Alex

WOW, some wonderful backdrops.

I think all the scenes are works of art.   

The background effects look super - the trains appear to be running outside. Also, the colors in the layout (like ballast and scenery details) match the background very well.  It is tough to see where the layout stops and the background begins.

Wow now that is pretty cool....

Even if its green screen it is still great looking back drops. Still he still has to have the photos on a computer. I would really like to get my hands on the winters photos. 

As for the sound on the engine. It sucks.  Maybe a better quality speaker with something that has more bass.  What it really comes down to, all his work and attention to detail is diminished by the engine sound file. Like the body builder in the movie Grown Ups : Everything was on steroids but his voice...  

I wondered if it was digitally rendered or otherwise done with some magic or trickery: I would like to see the entire layout, but I am not criticizing if they did it with a green screen of something other than the "old-fashioned way" - they are still fantastic videos.  

As to the sound, my somewhat limited experience with HO is that what you hear is about par for the course.  O-gauge allows much bigger speakers and you really hear the difference speaker size can make when you listen to HO.

Thanks Sam, nice find!  The guy also seems to be a 765 fan.

Museum quality for sure.

Love it!

Fantastic.

Amazing! Loved everything about it (except for the sad sound quality of the loco's).

Thanks for posting

JohnJr

Absolutely beautiful work.

That would make a great article for the magazine, assuming its feasible and the backgrounds were not some added video special effect.

I looked at some of his other videos on the tube and it appears most of the scenes are created with portable back drops, large photo murals he can add or delete. There appears to be some distance between the layout table and the backdrop. Maybe 6 inches or so.

Very effective. 

Wow!  Beautiful video of both real trains and his fabulous modeling.

Art