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Thought I'd share as I actually did something I think is kind of cool this weekend. My twin sons and I are working on our layout and one of the mains is about 30" higher than the sea level routes. We decided it needed a town on top of it.  We created a forced perspective town to make it seem way off in the distance even though it's only about 4' back.  It's not yet done but close.  Still need to place cars, add some cover and other little things.  And we plan to electrify the houses like in real-life. The actual lighting wires in each house will run to the telephone poles that will have larger wires that are electrified. Here are some photos.



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E-UNIT-79 posted:

sounds like a great idea but how would you get the power from the pole to the house without having a fairly large (out of scale) connection on the poles? But I like the idea....

Simple, just install transformers on the poles and run wires from them to the houses.  At one point, on my garden railway, I had live wire strung between telephone poles and then to each house.  It was good for a few years but being a garden and a railway, got to be trouble for the gardener...LOL

The hardest part was - we've never done anything like this before. Ever.  

Started thinking about what details make a scene like this look realistic.  Garbage cans, some knocked over, parking meters, fire hydrants (titled because they probably got hit by a car or two), sidewalks that are not perfectly flat or uniform in color.  And sidewalks that are wide enough to allow street lights and pedestrians.  Anyway, for our first time out, I'm happy with it so far. 

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PJB posted:

The hardest part was - we've never done anything like this before. Ever.  

Started thinking about what details make a scene like this look realistic.  Garbage cans, some knocked over, parking meters, fire hydrants (titled because they probably got hit by a car or two), sidewalks that are not perfectly flat or uniform in color.  And sidewalks that are wide enough to allow street lights and pedestrians.  Anyway, for our first time out, I'm happy with it so far. 

All of those things are excellent choices, in my opinion, to make a scene realistic.  But at the risk of diverting this thread, please do not include graffiti in your scenes !! 

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