Back Scene

From the front

From the start our plans never had a back scene, and in some respects this was absolutely fine for our little layout which was only going to be used at home, where the audience was just family and friends. 

All the back scenes so far in our blog have been superimposed via photo editing software. The advantage to this was that we could create different back scenes for different views of the layout, without spening extra money on printing costs etc.

However now that the public will be seeing the layout we thought it would be a good idea to put a back scene onto the layout, so that people with cameras, can take a picture without other objects and people in the background, namely me and my dad eating cake.

So, we made a trip to Cliddesden as it is today, and took a panoramic photo of the fields and tree line behind Cliddesden station. The photo's were then processed in a photo editing program and then printed at a local printing shop on photo paper, to the dimensions we required in this case 120cm x 21cm. 

The back scene follows the back of the layout, following the curve in the back where the siding is. It slots in-between the back and a wall of 1 inch high hardboard, it is then supported by extra card to stop it flapping about. The good thing with this is that we can change the back scene without causing damage to the layout.

From the back

Ed