let's see your backdrops and backdrop ideas.....

Check out Joey Ricard's Trackside Scenery. Joey is a frequent contributor here and to the magazine. His photo backdrops are superb and a number of them will be gracing the walls of my under-construction train room.

You might want to try the search function. There have been many posts on use of backdrops. The scenery forum also has lots of great info on crafting scenery, including use of backdrops, building flats, etc.  There are many vendors and the products seem to have improved over the years.

Good luck with your searching!

There are different types of backdrops out there. Have you decided what type of scenes you want to have. Then it would be easier I think to possibly find what you want. And backdrops can range from in price from reasonable to pricy. On my basement layout I am going with individual buildings glued to a Masonite background. Also I will be mixing O and HO building flats and maybe in one or two spots even adding some N gauge building flats for more perspective.................Paul

looking for examples of city scenes, mixing both building flats and backdrops.....

Brian, for building flats so far I have been buying from Angiestrackside flats and PTF designs. I also got two smaller background city scenes from Scenic Express, they are 36" long. Others will hopefully chime in for longer backdrop scenes.............Paul

thank  you Paul

nmp.......   something like this.......  more 3d city backdrops please..... anybody have any...

Brian,

Backdrop Junction.  That's actually the moon to the right of the Freedom Tower.  I had to spray glue the vinyl to poster board to make it firm enough to get it up there.

The bottom is an old Walthers backdrop with the ESB added.  The kids in Graphics needed a project.

Cut out individual buildings, printed on photopaper, with 1/4 inch black foam board backing

Angiestrackside flats.  Cut out and spray glued to black foam.  Pretty sure Paul gave me the idea.

This is an HO paper backdrop, spray glued to poster board.  The HO gives it a longer scale.

This is my double-tracked overhead layout.  8 inches from the ceiling.  Two 40 foot long sections, alternating city and forested hills, from Backdrop Junction.  He had to really work it to get it that long and 7 1/4 inches tall.  A major pain to cut out, spray glue the vinyl to thin poster board, and mount it up there with velcro.  It looks great, and is necessary to hide the support brackets.

There are places where Miller Engineering signs look better than a backdrop.  On each end, there are baseball card sized train art that hide the support brackets.

One is next to the Amtrak sign.

I tried to show you different kinds of stuff.  Hope this gave you some ideas.

Jerry

Brian,

I forgot to add these two...Another customized Backdrop Junction, simply hung with Velcro, no backing needed.  Because I couldn't get those brass support holders unscrewed, I had to put the track supports right through the backdrop.  Just a small slice, they popped right through.

 Jerry, a lot of cool ideas, will be using some of them, layout looks great, thanks, brian

Some backdrop scenes on South Fork Railroad

If it's distant mountains, here's what two shades of the same blue paint can do, along with airbrushing grey to soften the color shifts....then plaster hills and trees in the foreground