It's not perfect, but not awful either. A little more work on hiding the edges of the mirror, and the visual gap in the rails, and I think it will look just fine. It's certainly convincing with a car parked in front of it!
An HO scale switching shelf layout based on an alternate history of Hill City, Minnesota in the year 1920. In this alternate history, the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range railroad has expanded into more than an ore carrier, and is servicing Hill City as a general purpose railroad.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
It's Like Looking Into A Mirror
Yes, I know it's been done forever, but it remains one of the coolest visual tricks I've ever seen on a model railroad. That would be the use of mirrors to make a set of tracks disappear into the backdrop. The best I've seen yet is on Gerry Leone's Bona Vista railroad. I decided to try it myself.
It's not perfect, but not awful either. A little more work on hiding the edges of the mirror, and the visual gap in the rails, and I think it will look just fine. It's certainly convincing with a car parked in front of it!
It's not perfect, but not awful either. A little more work on hiding the edges of the mirror, and the visual gap in the rails, and I think it will look just fine. It's certainly convincing with a car parked in front of it!
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