My layout which runs along one wall of my garage and is 60" deep. Due to layout’s unusual height of 51" above floor, there is only 45" from the layout platform to bottom edge of the ceiling joists from which I would suspend the strip or “track” of lights presumably above the layout’s front edge. I’m trying to employ “forced-perspective” by using progressively smaller-scale models and subdued coloring of scenery in the back and I’d like to do the same with my lighting, i.e., providing “noon brightness” near the front edge of the layout with the lighting becoming progressively dimmer and “bluer” toward the background, a depth of 5'. I’m considering something like a row of downward-focused lights above the front edge of the layout with perhaps a vertical blue styrene sheet suspended behind the bulbs, extending somewhat below them to shade or soften the light diffused toward the back of the layout. I’d love thoughts on types of bulbs and on techniques for “screening” or subduing the light as it illuminates the back.
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