Layout Background Scenery

http://www.backdropwarehouse.com/indexbdwh.htm

I bought these commercially available city background scenes. I laminated them and cut out the sky part since they used different shades of blue. They then meshed well together - as you see. Total cost for a very decent, in my humble opinion, background is $40. It covers most of my 8' background wall on one side of my layout. This company, I cut off the name in the back - sorry, also makes small town, industrial (I have one of those), and country scenes. My LHS has stacks and stacks of this product. If I ever find the name I'll post it. Good luck to you.

Michael,

How about the name and a way to get in touch with your LHS for Mike F.

Joe

I did the same thing as Michael.  I think the same Website given above by Drew has both varieties of back drops, i.e. expensive and expansive, or the or 18" X 36" panels that Michael and I used.

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Dennis

Forum sponsor Scenic Express has some.

http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1100

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Dennis

Detail the back of the layout and use a mirror to give it depth.

Way to go Bobby, you beat me to it, that was to be my next suggestion.   I've seen it done well hear on the forum.

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Dennis

Try the Border Store.   www.borderstore.com

They have many excellent background scenes and prices are very reasonable.

Bob

When I was doing a home layout I used Backdrop warehouse.  Their website is terrible but the product is awesome

I found a high definition panoramic view of a Pennsylvania mountain range on wikipedia.com and sent it to Vista Print. They made a 2'x8' vinyl banner for me. Check Google for a discount coupon for Vista Print and you may get the banner for under $20.

Clouds. 

Camera walk around.  Click on the underlined phrase to link.

English's Model RR, Montoursville, PA. Phone: 570-368-2516. (thanks for the tip Coach)

I tried to in vain order from the Backdrop website. Had the $$, dimensions and knew what I wanted to buy. When I called, I learned that the quality of their customer service is commensurate with their website. My hat is off to anyone that is successful in ordering anything from these folks.

I ended up ordering from ScenicExpress. Very nice folks.

Gilly

Still wish I could have gotten the Skyline Drive (Virginia) backdrop for my train room.

This is 12' long & 18" high. Came from the border store. i believe it was $39. Also it doesn't repeat.

I lIKE it!

On the way up to our mountain cottage I set up the tripod and started shoting some Blue Ridge scenery with the thought that I might get it converted to background. I didn't notice the storm you can see moving in but when lighning smoked a tree just below on the mountain I bailed.

I was at the top of of the 8% grade on Wilkes Mountain which is the primary reason Southern Railway never got to Boone, N.C.  The N&W headed for Boone from Virginia along the East Fork of the north flowing New River but terminated at Todd, N.C. 11 miles away. So it was left to the little narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Ry ["Tweetsie"] to come from Johnson City, Tennessee in the west to reach Boone via multiple tunnels and trestles. However the floods of 1950 put the ET&WNC out of business for good.

I will try again in the spring or summer.

I prefer hills, cliffs and mountains with sky on the wall. You can build small cliffs and hills to a small depth then you don't have to worry about that joint line at the top of your layout where the sky meet the layout. Don