In this last installment of the Model Railroader staff’s project layout video series, you’ll get backdrop painting tips from MR illustrator Jay Smith. Follow along as Jay shows you how he added the quarry scene to help finish off the model train layout scenery.
Building the HO scale Winter Hill Quarry Branch part 12
By Angela Cotey | April 19, 2013
| Last updated on November 23, 2020
Tips for painting a model railroad backdrop
The pictures for the quay were taken Cody with went to South Dakota for a train show and by Drew who went to Lannon Stone Product in Drews Trackside Adventures. Now it is time for Jay to work his magic.
Many of us have called upon artist friends to finish something special. clearly, Jay's work is impressive. His words encouraging us to have fun though are key. I have tried and actually amazed myself. It is just one more aspect of our hobby.
Jay does a good job of explaining how contrasting dark and light swaths of the same base color create a structure in the distance. What a simple but amazing technique.
looks good better to have the Master of The Brush Jay Smith wrap this up his art work looks good on the MR&T ready for Cody to bring the Bay Junction Switcher down. Winter Hill is finished from a boring chunk of 2x4s to an amazing layout good work MR Staff.
Unable anymore to view your layout videos. Has your video plus taken over & left the loyal subscribers out in the cold?
I am also disappointed with this video series it seems that since the video plus went live MR staff has put their main efforts into that, of wich I am a subscriber. Still trying to decide if it is worth it because so far not too much different stuff to justify extra cost. So when is the next installment?
The project railroad videos are what I look forward to the most. I have been disappointed that you haven't had a new video every week as you did in the past. What is the schedule for part 13 and the rest of the videos. I signed up for Video Plus and so far I haven't seen anything that makes it worth the price.
Greetings!
I watched this 12th episode video on my members extra video selection then right beneath it advertises "For a better viewing experience watch this video at MR Video Plus". I had recently subscribed to the Video Plus feature so I watched the 12th episode again on Video Plus. I could not tell any difference. What is the "better viewing experience" that was advertised?
Thanks, Mark
Great illustration, and very enjoyable.
Does your staff artist make house calls? That piece of art really makes sense of the whole scene.
Winter Hill was a nice, small project that could be completed in short number of segments. Jay's work with the brush was very inspiring for those of us who will soon be painting backgrounds. Just a thought for the non-artists out there, check out the old Bob Ross painting series, Bob did some nice acrylic backgrounds with trees and mountains that would serve model railroaders nicely. As Jay said, have fun with it.
The Winter Hill Project looks like it went very well for all of the Staff at MR, + or – a few mistakes made along the way that only you folks know about and we don't. The background painting that your Illustrator/Artist did of the distant Quarry was Great! You need to do more Videos of the work that this man does and share them with all of us.
Yes it's very helpful–we all are artists-just need a litle inspirattion! Have been reading MR 50 yrs and still is the best for model rairoading!
Very good overall. Just signed up for Video Plus and will be back often. Agree with David Tiner regarding the many "auhs" in the commentary–that could be tightened up. It could be my system, but the videos were jerky, loaded slowly and the sound did not track particularly well. Any recommendations on that?
It was Nice series. So Glad I was able to have access to it.
Keep up the good work.
Auh I auh wish that auh maybe the guys auh would have thought through auh their thoughts auh some before committing themselves to video. Otherwise I enjoyed this series and look forward to the next one. Just this reminder – Subscribers can access video files and look at past projects.
So happy that the information I present is useful and having it being inspirational is the icing on the cake. I'm so glad I can pass
along some techniques and let people know that anyone can do it with patience, some practice and of course a little paint and brushes wouldn't hurt too.
Thank you for the larger viewing great job
A great video series, Steve (and your colleagues). Thanks for sharing this with us.
Great series.
Very interesting video on the reconstruction process. Learned much, really like the segment dealing with reversing the background building, will try that on one of my background buildings. Only question I really have pertains to this segment, unless it was done for the video project sequence, wouldn't it have made more sense to do this segment earlier, before adding structures and some of the trees/background scenery to make access for your resident artist easier, as well as preventing possible spells or breakage?
What a great series! Wonderful to watch your illustrator creating the Quarry scene.
Great series . many good tips for model railroaders . The sound & video has to be matched.
Fantastic video. Very realistic quarry in background.
Nice series. I look forward to the next one.