How to -- Please tell me how this was done.

Here is an article on making the endless tunnel (mine).

Thank you.  That is very interesting, and it seems not too hard to do.

So what is one way glass and which way does it go?  thanks

Thanks Mark, very interesting and GREAT article. I assume in your drawing that the "one way glass" your refer to is what some folks call "see thru mirror" or "2 way mirror" ?

May I ask where you put the light or lights in this??  I assume between the 2 different mirrors??

sinclair, great article. can you tell me where you position the light or lights. I also understand that the lighting has to be brighter inside than outside...is that correct?

Roger....I spent the last hour doing some research for you and I think I have come up with at least one way to accomplish what you are trying to do.

Go to Google and type in the search box "images of inside of highway tunnel" then click on the search.  The page that comes up will be what is on the web so click on "images" and you will get some nice pictures to choose from.  You should be able to save the ones you want and then resize them to your tunnel opening.  I would use a good quality matte finish photo paper so that once you put it a little way inside of your tunnel (perhaps one car length inside so you can have at least one model car in front of the picture), it will look like the tunnel goes on for a long way.  Since many of the pictures appear to have lights on the roof of the tunnel, you could put a couple of LEDs on the roof just inside and in front of the picture to not only light the picture up but to simulate the beginning of the tunnel lights...??

OK...that is the best I can suggest...

Alan

Thanks for sharing

Thanks Alan, headed to Google.

Really enjoyed visiting with you and the Memphis gang this past weekend.

Roger....Your layout is turning into a "Smithsonian" Edition!!

I printed a picture and decided to see if I could help a little more by doing a quick ( and not that great ) illustration of what I am talking about.  I used just plain paper in the printer since I will be doing something similar sometime soon and want to paint the road in front of the picture so that it blends into a continuous scene...so forgive me for the bare wood street in front of the photo...  Here are some pictures I took just now...

Alan

Alan, Thanks again for helping buddy. Great ideas with great pictures. Thanks again for helping this ole' hillbilly.

Roger...from one hillbilly to another....ya'll is welkom"!!!  By the way, if you pick a little darker picture and print it on clear sheet and then put a dim light behind it once it is mounted inside the tunnel, that might give it more 3-D....???  Just thinking...

Alan

Alan, that tunnel picture looks like a one way tunnel BTW.  Both lanes show the back of trucks (Left is a Toyota and the right a S-10/Jimmy if I were to venture a guess.), so how is that green truck coming out?  

Roger, I did not write the article nor have I done this, so I have no more info.  I came across it a long while back and remembered it when I saw the photos you posted.

Sinclair

Don't fault Alan for not having a two-way tunnel view; most tunnels are one-way;

However, does anyone have a two-way two lane tunnel view?

Here in the west, any tunnels we have are two way single lane, like the two you posted, not one way.

Sinclair

Pictures??! with heavy traffic  please.

Good luck finding heavy traffic, as the tunnels will be on less traveled roads.  Because we don't have to worry about snow, and being mostly a desert, we go up and over not through mountains on the busy thoroughfares.

Sinclair....ever heard of a U-turn???....  Actually, this was a quick illustration done to help answer Roger.  I am not even close to being done with the scene and will most likely start over with a darker photo and some special lighting at the entrance...

Alan