Model Railroad Paper Backdrop Buildings with LIGHTS!
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2022
- Karyn has built five paper and wood backdrop buildings with "full light-up interiors" for the upper logging railroad using electroluminescent panels and "grain of rice" lights.
While these buildings are for the most part less than 1/2 inch deep and very close to the track, by using perspective and forced perspective they appear much deeper and further from the track.
One of the challenges of model railroad backdrops is that often they need to be as close as possible to the track, in HO this may be about one inch from the rail! So... how to make that inch look like a mile? Moreover, it's fun to add buildings to the backdrop. So how can you add lights to buildings that are flat pictures on the backdrop? Well, it is possible using EL panels. The panels are usually blueish and look bad, but this can be corrected with color correction filters used in filmmaking. CTO filters. (Color Temperature Orange) CTO comes in CTO full, corrects 5600K to 2800 K or sunlight to incondesent., also know as an 85 filter, 1/2 CTO, 1/4 CTO, and even 1/8 CTO. ANYWAY, if you layer a CTO over an EL pannel its now warm yellow, like incondesent lights. We found the 1/2 CTO worked best, but we used all 4 different ones. We found a variety pack on Amazon.
Selens 16x20 inches Lighting Gels CTO Photo Lights Gel Filters Transparent Color Correction Light Sheets for Photography. $18.99
EL pannels are available on Amazon and eBay. More on eBay!
Amazon:
GoolRC A6 EL Panel Electroluminescent Cuttable Light Sheet Neon Sheet with 12V Actuator White $19.99
Other cool light products from
Locomotive Joe on eBay. 
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Creativity continues as you continue to amaze me with your incredible talent!🚂
Awesome, beautiful, amazing, fantastic and so great is the work both of you are doing. Have a great day, and we will be waiting for your next video! ❣️
More of these. Sunday. Editing now.
Amazing how much detail & character you've added with these buildings using almost no space. And the color correction on the LED panels to get that softer, golden tones is sooooooo great!
Hi. Thanks! We are really happy with the finishing product. More tomorrow
The day you two got together a creative force was born. Absolutely brilliant. I can hardly wait for what's to come!
Thanks!!! Wow!!! Thanks
Good morning and happy Sunday from Detroit 👋👋👋
Hi!!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again. MASTER MODELERS. I " HOPE THIS IS NOT BORING ". A very relaxing video for a Sunday morning. 👍
Hi and THANKS!!!!
I am not a railroader, but I really love the logging railroad, especially the structures and terrain. I enjoyed the engine house and three dimentional structures. I think I enjoyed the pseudo three dimentional flats that Karyn made even more.
More on those… as wall hanging or table top.
Don't know what to say, that hasn't been said. Great job. Thx again
Thanks
Karyn did an awesome job on those 3d building fronts. I really like the lighting effects in these building. I've known a little bit about EL light panel but they were mostly blue the one I have seen in different electronic equipment. It's nice to know about cto filter panels to change the color of the el panel. It open up a great alternative to lighting buildings on the layout.I am going to try making new 3d buildings for my layout and light them. The one's I have right now on my layout are just flat buildings and not lighted. Thanks for all the new ideas that I want to try out and makes them look more realistic. It is always makes you fill really good getting a phase done. You can step back and take in the achievement of all your hard work. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
It works well! The blue light is nasty but this really cleans that up.
I used to use 35mm slides cut out and positioned in building windows as glass or set back 1/4" from the windows. Light behind them and instant interiors.
I did the same withAthern and Roundhouse empty passenger cars. A series of photoslides taped together in the center of the car, with a light strip.
That was well before color laser printers. Now it's a cinch.
Sorry, I couldn't resist, perspective drawing is an application of Projective Geometry. In this geometry families of parallel lines intersect at their respective vanishing points. All vanishing points are on a horizontal line in drawing and art called the horizon. Think of a pair of railroad tracks headed toward the horizon, measured everywhere they are parallel in the Euclidean sense but by eye they converge at the horizon. Thusly a 3d perspective.
One of the tricks is finding the horizon on a model railroad. Is it sensitive to scale? Yes. Is it determined by the viewing angle? Yup. We’ve been trying to figure out a “rule”.
Reminds me of Knott's Berry Farm! That western kinda look.
Right? Love the old Knotts Berry Farm
This is a super video. Excellent build of these 3D buildings.
Thanks!!!!
Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸
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Dale: You guys did a great job. So realistic. It was informative. Got lots out of it.
Thanks Ken.
Absolutely beautiful, creative modeling skills!
Awesome work as always! You guys are amazing!
Thank you so much!
Thanks. We love doing this but complements are appreciated!!!
I love it. What a fun project!
I wouldn't have thought of using CTO for that, even if I have some sample of it for my camera strobes.
And the models are great.
I have used so much of that in filmmaking. 85. 85n3. Anyway when I saw the blue from the panel I thought I need some 85 gel!!!
Just wonderful. Of course I'm just a model car builder but what a great idea for the back wall of the display case.
Oh, and the theater, with the Blob poster. Must be a temptation to put some Jello coming out of the front door!
Have you ever been to blob fest? It’s in Phoenixville Pennsylvania! Where they filmed the blob! Have you ever seen the sequel return of the blob? It’s actually an outrageous comedy!
@@ToyManTelevision No, and no. I'll look around to find Blob 2 the sequel. And had no idea there was a blob fest. lol. That's funny.
One word: wow!
Hi. Thanks for watching! Some fun making these. More next Sunday
Wow everything looks amazing
Thanks bob!!
All I have to say is wow . looking great .you guys have inspired me to do the same with the building s have a great weekend.and thank you
Thanks. You too! May snow here. But good no matter what.
great video 👍💡
Hi! Thanks
Wow nice video you put together.Hope to see more.
Hi. Sure will!! Thanks again for watching
@@ToyManTelevision Thanks very much for replying to my comment.It's nice to see other people's work too.Take Care & Stay Safe.
Excellent work
Sure is nice to see it all working now, been working on my module s along with you building your layout so its been fun . Thanks for the advice...
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They look absolutely great can't wait to see her recreation of her little hometown 👍👍
Just finishing that show now.
Great buildings! I was just thinking recently of doing something similar on my layout using some building photos I took for a college class project back in the 70's. Nice to see how you take it to the extreme. I don't think my execution will be as nice at yours but its interesting we have the same idea. Keep up the good work.
Cool! Make it great.
Looks fantastic! Very creative using forced perspective to increase the realism. Enjoyed it!
Forced! Yup
Very very interesting 😳
Thanks
Neat stuff y'all. :)
Thanks
You look really awesome I really enjoyed the buildings being made in the building fronts in the logline looks beautiful
Hi. Thanks! With the logging railroad set aside for now we are pressing on to other things
Great railroad. I hope to get to see it in person some day. I just bought another S scale brass EMD E8 diesel. (Like the one you took some video footage of at the Farmington Train Show). The S Scale product availability is actually pretty good., and remains so. Keep up the good work, and I hope you do well on your MMR,
Hi again and thanks
@@ToyManTelevision @Toy Man Television I've sent you a few e-mails the past week or two. Have you received them? The last one was brief but significant. I'm curious to know if they were received.
I don’t know what you are using for window glass. I found that the envelope windows work really well. Some are clear and some are frosted.
Right,
Hiya! Really effective, they really look great. I'm thinking something similar on my (eventual) layout, but they'll have to weather proof. A challenge!
I’m betting the EL could be made weather proof. It’s the building fronts that aren’t. But the Burwood/homeco wall art we are using works great. Take a look on eBay. I’m going to add locomotive joes lights to them in the spring. But betting a window could be cut out and an EL panel used there too
lots of great ideas ! by the way why don't you use some photos of your finished housekits and some of those super detailed houses
that your friends have on their layouts and put them as well on your backdrop. With the right light and shadows of course.
That will save a lot of money, space and time as well. The interior of your houses is amazing ! You only need some moving people there....Thanks and be safe !
Surprisingly there is a way to do that! Wayback in 1990s or even the 1980s? Caesars palace in Las Vegas did this amazing model of Rome. Well they said it was Rome. I’m sure it was completely not accurate. Anyway right in the middle of the whole thing was Caesars Palace. And inside the palace was a party going on with all of these people dancing and even Cesar and Cleopatra talking to people looking at the model!!! The “figures” were about 70mm tall! Anyway I stood and stared and after about an hour I figured out how it was done. And would I like to try that on the model railroad. In 1990 this was a real problem for them. But with LED video it would be easy. I’ll go into that next Sunday. Thanks again for watching
@@ToyManTelevision that sounds very exiting ! looking forward to it ! if you want to see some solutions how to make miniature people move, check out the german Miniature wunderland in Hamburg (of course you will find them here at You Tube) and their version of a south american festival.
@@HenrikSweden1 Yeah all they were using background was a little small television set built into the model with the image being reflected off of a sheet of glass. With today’s little miniature flat screens, like the cell phone in your hand right now, that would be so easy to do! The key is not being able to see the screen, but just the reflection in the glass which makes the people appear to be out in the middle of the room.
Great buildings, what can you make for the backyard buildings to make them weather proof...
Can be redwood or cedar or cement. Or some plastics.
Greetings from the Great White North. Fabulous video. Have you tried glow in the dark paint for smaller windows. (I believe John Allen did it in his Great Divide city scene).
Yes. And stars.
The video is great as usual .
The only problem with the layout is that the lights are too bright .
I remember that back then the " Low power supply " the lights were more Dim and Yellowed and barely covered the street in front of building .
But the shadow effect makes the flats look fuller and tapered back .
It’s not too bright. Was running the power supply at 11.5 volts. As low as it would go. Well it burned up! 10 amps. Anyway the new one is 20 at 10 volts. Looks great. The photos often look brighter than the eye sees it.
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Ok
You're right it might look different in person .
I've been putting in lights in some passenger cars and for the time period there too bright .
So I was looking at yours from that point .
Great Job anyway .
@@johnrettig1880 I love having different levels and subtle color temp because the real world does!
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Like I said before
The shadow effect makes the flats look like their full buildings or at least a little bit deeper .
But like you said before something like that can only be seen on a ladder once you're done .
Love your videos. What are those two crown looking things hanging on the wall above the jukebox and pinball machine?
Those are Wurlitzer jukebox speakers! There’s two of them there but of course back in the 40s there would’ve only been one as they didn’t do stereo. It’s just that I have two so I’ve hung up too! But Karen re-created those in miniature and that’s what were using us the sound system on the logging railroad. They’re only about 2 inches of crossed but they look exactly like those.
@@ToyManTelevision Thank You
Question, I want to build some finished lumber loads to go with my sawmill and logging equipment and I was wondering if anyone had any tips, tricks or ideas. I'm modeling in lionel O gage to o27.
We buy a lot of strip wood at Joannes. Sort of a nice craft store. I think they also have it at Michael’s and of course the hobby shops but I think you can get a much better price at Joannes. The problem is that there’s so many sizes they just don’t have. But a lot of that stuff comes in 2 foot Lengths or 36 inch lengths. You may be able to find something that will work that you can cut down. Depending on the era, and the type of railroad, if it’s finished lumber it may all be wrapped in plastic! Or it may be exposed but banded with steel bands. I have found that the flat dental floss can work really well for the bands. Except it looks like the modern plastic bands instead of the older blue steel bands. But they could probably be colored in spite of the fact of the covered with wax.
Gotta fine these for o scale
All scratch out of printed paper! Find stuff online and print it.
Can you guy go to Silverton and Durango railroad
We did. A few months ago. Show on that coming in about 2 weeks. 3? Don’t know yet.
Ok thank you
I know the White Pass depot anywhere.
Which building? Confused.
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@@Prewarpostwaramdmore wow! Yes! Hadn’t noticed! Thanks.
budget. Don't like any background buildings, it makes your layout look cheap and unreal.