Hiding a hole in the wall

[jdl56]

I'm running a series of posts on my blog about how I'm hiding a hole in the wall between my layout and the room that holds the staging yard.

Find it at cprailmmsub.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hiding-hole-part-iii.html

John Longhurst, Winnipeg

[Mark R.]

Something that really helps to hide your hole is to place a light of some kind on the other side to illuminate the opening to the same brightness as your room. As it stands, the light below the bridge is approaching black in comparison to the light above the bridge.

Add a bluff to the backside of the bridge abuttment and illuminate it to the same level as the bluff in the fore ground - then your "hole" will really start to disappear !


Mark.

[el3637]

I'm going to need to make a hole like that at some point to provide straight line access to staging through a thick cinderblock wall. It won't be the only access, but having two ways in/out will make things flow a lot better.

Andy

[jdl56]

Yes, indeed, Mark--I intend to do siomething like that. Right now I have a piece of cardboard on the other side of the wall so you can't see the staging yard. I will either do a bluff or glue a tree scene to the other side.

John

[mlehman]

I have a very similar hole in the wall, actually side by side holes. The power plant helps hide the wall that's in between the two holes. Here are 3 pics. They still need more ground cover, ballasting, clutter, etc.







It's hard to see, but there is a sub-backdrop in place as the track curves into the room with staging. So I've got the pieces in place for this to work well. The Rix highway bridge works well to disguise things, as it's a relatively wide two lane bridge. I angled it slightly away from the backdrop as it crosses the tracks

[jdl56]

Looks good, Mike!

John