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In my "T" shaped basement there are two outside corners.  One will be hidden by a mountain.  The other needs a tall rail side structure of some kind to take attention away from the corner.  Not really sure how to treat this.

What I may need would be two  building flats that can be assembled in an 90 degree angle to camouflage the corner.  The corner edge is close to a curved switch wrapping around the corner,  the turnout can not be repositioned.

Problem:  it is a rural setting????   I am totally unaware of available building flats.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

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If it's rural, how about a barn? Get some junk Plasticville farm building parts.....kitbash and add extra styrene....then paint.

What about a rusted shed with corrugated aluminum siding.....you can get styrene and paint/rust /weather it... or, you can use cardboard which comes as packing material.....here's a picture of a factory I made out of cardboard over 20 years ago. My technique is much better now, but you can get the idea.

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I made these somewhere between 94-97.

Peter

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If it were me, I would not attempt a structure there. It is more likely to attract attention to the corner than to deemphasize it. Rather, I would simulate a rock escarpment. It is very easy to make flats that accomplish this by using thin strips of broken ceiling tile. Two such flats will do the trick. But, do not have them meet at right angles. Instead, position them at the least acute angle you have room for. Make the meeting edge as irregular as possible, to deemphasize the existing angle--you want it to look natural, not "built".  Then, put lots of foliage around the "stone". Work hard to avoid symmetry. 

Here are a few scenes from my layout that use this technique (although none on a convex corner):

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I think Pete is right in suggesting a road escarpment if you are able to continue it further and end it naturally in either side. If you're really set on a building flat, you might consider an escarpment on the right hand side since you have depth to the wall and continue it around the corner on the left where a building flat would be surrounded by the escarpment. For the flat, a very inexpensive way to do it would be to Google O scale building flats and you'll see two sellers that offer mounted pictures (on 1/4" foam) of real buildings of all types and sizes. It's very easy to add sides and a narrow roof of cardboard or foam board (let's say about 1" deep or so) so it sticks out from the wall and the escarpment could go around and over it so the building appears to be set in the mountain. Adding a few 3-D details like roof vents, a billboard, etc. adds to the effect.  

I definitely agree that scenery, in the form of a rock cut or hillside, would look better and conceal the corner better than building-flats. Also, the footprint of the rock cut/hillside should be curved and remain equidistant (about one inch) from the edge of the cork and extend for some distance (maybe ten inches) along that curve on both sides of the corner. I generally stack and carve pieces of extruded pink foam to create hillsides and elevated terrain. You can then place a small shack atop the hillside and a billboard directly in front of the corner.

MELGAR

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How about a barn with a silo covering the outside corner?  Think about a piece material curved into an arc where the absolute corner the wall is touching the inside of the arc.  Make it as tall as you want and make it resemble whatever material you want (sheet metal versus concrete versus wood)  Then place a barn flat next to it.

The Shadow

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