FARMINGTON
Above you can see my roll top desk where I work on kits, now removed from that area where Strong will be, and the back wall where the closets are is where Farmington will be. To the right is that same area under demolition to make room for the layout.
Below is the same area after patching and painting walls, putting in the initial benchwork for Strong, and decorating the walls with prints and artefacts and whatnot. Because Franklin County was about logging and lumber, the Narrow Guage, and rusticators at Rangeley, those are the things I like to put up. The green tape line marks where the top of the backdrop will be. |
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To the left is the same area as the first photo on this page. Now with benchwork for Avon, Strong, and Farmington in place. Below is storage, with valance in place to make it look less like a storage room and more like a layout room.
To the right is the new home for the roll top desk, until it's time to move it out and extend the rest of the Farmington bench work. |
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I like experimenting with things I haven't tried yet, and Farmington was the biggest town on the railroad, so at this point I've already done some forced perspective at Phillips and other spots, so to make Farmington BIG, I'm going big on forced perspective.
All my structures on the layout so far are 3-D models. I'm trying something new, by making the background buildings of downtown Farmington with printed N scale buildings on the backdrop. Then I'll be adding N scale model structures in front of the printed ones. In addition to plastic kits, I'm trying something new again by trying out some printed cardstock structure kits to see how I like them.
The railroad was built on fill down hill from the downtown section of Farmington on the Sandy River intervale. So everything uphill from the railroad will be N scale, and everything on the level with the railroad will be HO.
Below right, the base coat of paint for the backdrop has been put on, and it came out a bit dark. It looked lighter when I was painting it outside in the driveway. I'm thinking of experimenting again, and blending it with my airbrush, which I still have never used on anything up to this point. Also, the darkness made me think of twilight, so I've ordered some more nano LEDs and I'm going to drill some pinholes in the upper darkened sky to look like twilight with the LEDs representing the first/last stars/planets of the day. If I don't like it I can always paint over it.
I like experimenting with things I haven't tried yet, and Farmington was the biggest town on the railroad, so at this point I've already done some forced perspective at Phillips and other spots, so to make Farmington BIG, I'm going big on forced perspective.
All my structures on the layout so far are 3-D models. I'm trying something new, by making the background buildings of downtown Farmington with printed N scale buildings on the backdrop. Then I'll be adding N scale model structures in front of the printed ones. In addition to plastic kits, I'm trying something new again by trying out some printed cardstock structure kits to see how I like them.
The railroad was built on fill down hill from the downtown section of Farmington on the Sandy River intervale. So everything uphill from the railroad will be N scale, and everything on the level with the railroad will be HO.
Below right, the base coat of paint for the backdrop has been put on, and it came out a bit dark. It looked lighter when I was painting it outside in the driveway. I'm thinking of experimenting again, and blending it with my airbrush, which I still have never used on anything up to this point. Also, the darkness made me think of twilight, so I've ordered some more nano LEDs and I'm going to drill some pinholes in the upper darkened sky to look like twilight with the LEDs representing the first/last stars/planets of the day. If I don't like it I can always paint over it.
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