So this is sorta a modeling question. I have been considering a shelf/diorama to hold my work train I am building. Thought it would be fun when it is not in use to be displayed on a shelf and if you are going to display it on a shelf why not make it a diorama. Someday before I am dead, I hope to move into my sons room as my new hobby room. He is supposed to be moving down stairs into my current hobby room. Anyway this gives me kind of a blank slate for this project. I have decided some sort of bookcase affair would be a great way to get storage and also have a long flat spot for this diorama. So with that said. . .
I want to do just front facades of buildings with a little depth to them so I can put pictures in the windows and have them be lit. I love this idea from the challenge. How deep should a shelf be so that it can hold a double set of tracks and facades with a walk between the tracks and the building fronts? How deep do you make the facades so you can have the pictures set back an a light above them. I am thinking a total of 18 inches deep should be enough. But i would like some thoughts and opinions on this since I am not really sure what I am doing with the fronts of these buildings.
i kinda need to move forward with this as I am starting to get a string of cars and would like to give them a home. The book case won’t be anything to awful fancy.