Host Steve Brown shares his “Regular Guy” techniques for making low-relief background structures. In this video, Steve points out how quick and easy it is to mount paper templates on foam core material to form realistic buildings well-suited for placement along a layout backdrop.
It’s My Railroad, Making backdrop buildings, Ep. 23
By Steve Brown | June 1, 2021
| Last updated on June 2, 2021
Steve I think this would be great for a shelf switching layout .
Steve, the backdrop scenes look great!
First-time viewer of Steve. Excellent presentation, however, his finger pointing photograph appears like violence. I’m critiquing the producers for silly, poor taste on this one. We see too much of this in the news.
77 will loosen with heat, like from a hair dryer.
Hello Steve. First, I enjoy every episode of your series. I like your common sense approach to model building Today episode was awesome because tried some background buildings from Cornerstone and I am happy with the results. I really like what you did using the buildings from Modelbuildings. org and using the photoshop app. I have been meaning to download this program using in model railroad projects. Thanks for the great episode. Rail On My Friend!
Bryan Smith
Fernley, Nevada
Why waste ink and then cover it up with the second layer? Just use plain blank cardstock to build up the second layer and then put the finished print on top.
Print the original on the cardstock and skip the cut out and spray glue steps
Well done Steve. I will have to give these techniques a try on my new town I’m building
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Nicely done Steve. My contribution to the discussion is to try using black foam core and black styrene sheet instead of card stock. One thing you did though that I really liked is the side panels and roof panels with the overhang. I’m going to try that technique on my next round of background structures.
Great work as always, Steve. Really enjoy all your episodes and your approach to modeling.
Bob Quick
Nice work Steve, Those buildings look great on that backdrop. Thanks.