Large Scale Central

Reverse layouting?

General Discussion
#1

as i got a zeroish energy level for weeks/months now, instead of doing much on the layout i am Devoning around…

what if… or if… or if not?

i am still ballasting and landscaping that 2ft. by 27ft. part of the layout, where the two opposing grades and the underground station are.

but, a thought, a new thought!, came to my mind. what if, if i reverse the normal way, layouts are structured?

normal layouting is, to have a foreground, and then (more or less steep) rising middle and background. so we, the observers, always look uphill.

would it be doable, to build in a way, that the observer looks downhill over a downwards slope (a kind of “background” up front) towards the important part (“foreground”) of the layout?

has it been done?

does any of you have pics of such layouts/parts of layouts?

#2

Devoning, huh? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)

#3

Looking up makes things look bigger, and the rising terrain behind the trains disguises (to some degree) the transition from 3D layout to 2D backdrop. Looking down, into a bowl, at the trains will make them appear smaller, though in large scale that may not be an issue.

Devoning around? Yea, I like that.

#4

So that’s a verb, now, eh? He whose name will not be spoken will be so proud. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)

#5

I got nothing Korm

#6

Steve yes. I worked with a guy who’s last name was Fetch. Many of the machines I went to were all Fetched up. Kinda like FUBAR light, because they were still recognizable, even though they didn’t work anymore.

#7

Ron Grau lives next to an unbuildable earthquake fault that “falls” away from the house and his Cactus Gulch Railroad does just this. The problem is that you don’t really see the stuff in the background down the hill unless you go down the hill to see it.

#8

Ray Dunedin’s whole layout is build up from the front to the back, and the trains Z up to the top and then back down. Masterful impression of size and distance.

#9

Devoning. . .devoning. . . Really devoning. Ok what is the definition. Being so engrossed with planning that you become paralyzed by inaction.

Oh and btw sorry I got here late. I was building and empire.

#10

Devon Sinsley said:
Devoning. . .devoning. . . Really devoning. Ok what is the definition. Being so engrossed with planning that you become paralyzed by inaction. Oh and btw sorry I got here late. I was building and empire.

Best I came up with was;

A busy mind. A lot going on, but has anything been finished?

Yeah that’s my bud!

#11

Devon Sinsley said:
Devoning. . .devoning. . . Really devoning. Ok what is the definition. Being so engrossed with planning that you become paralyzed by inaction. Oh and btw sorry I got here late. I was building and empire.

“Devoning” is the act of taking a forked willow twig (Devoning rod), and holding it by the forks while walking over a parcel looking for buried track under the drifting sands.

#12

just as i was afraid, it would be…

more responses to “Devoning”, than to layouting.

dave, you mentioned Ray`s layout. that one is not only outstanding in the quantity of stone, but in everything else.

… and it is a classical example of foreground - middleground - background.

Todd, do you know, where i could find pics of Ron Grau’s layout?

#13

Korm, I looked on YouTube and a few other places and find no videos of it.

#14

Personally due to my garage layout being un-accessable, I have done quite alot of Devoning :wink: if I didn’t Devonize I might as well take up golf (shudder). Devonizing is how I came up with the ideas for some of my madder projects like the mini-pizzas . :wink:

#15

I am glad demonizing is working form some. I am sitting back staying quite not saying much becuase in a year or so time when I have the most epic layout of the century I will have proved that devoniIng is with it.

#16

Lol my phone evidently thinks devonizing is synonymous with demonizing

#17

Devon,

Your phone doesn’t like you! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)

#18

Devon Sinsley said:
I am glad demonizing is working form some. I am sitting back staying quite not saying much becuase in a year or so time when I have the most epic layout of the century I will have proved that devoniIng is with it.

“staying quite”, quite what Devon?

when I have the most epic layout of the century

Ah, so Devoning causes delusions too. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Vic Smith said:
Personally due to my garage layout being un-accessable, I have done quite alot of Devoning :wink: if I didn’t Devonize I might as well take up golf (shudder).

Your layout is unaccessible (inaccessible)? Oh, that would just about kill me. If it werent for the train shows I participate in during the winter, winter would be impossible (unpossible) for me to get through.

#19

Leave me alone I am sick and on a smart phone and we are not getting along

#20

Epic medicine methinks… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)

Get well buddy.

My leash has a hinge and a built in excuse … Homey don’t play that game(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

John