Making a Backdrop for Your Model Railroad Layout
Here's a good article about making a backdrop for your model trains O scale, N gauge trains or for that matter, any train gauge layout. This is something I've been thinking of doing for a while but I didn't feel I had the skill to do. However, after reading this article about making backdrops, it doesn't seem so daunting.
Do you need a backdrop for your layout? Almost everyone who has a shelf type layout or a wall-hugging around-the-room type layout will need some kind of background to enhance their scenery and to create the proper environment in which to show and operate their trains.Even if you have a small freestanding, tabletop layout, you may wish to have a barrier, or flat 2-sided divider, running down the middle of the layout in order to create the effect of trains moving long distances from one locale to a completely different area with different scenery on one side of the layout vs. the other.Click here for the rest of the article.