How to Use Mirrors to expand the apparent size of Model Railroads and Dioramas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Using mirrors to create a larger-than-real model railroad or diorama. Several examples of scenes on several model railroads using mirrors to expand the apparent size.
Take a look at several model railroads in several scales to see how mirrors can expand the appetent size and visual impact of the model. Used to expand mines and tunnels as well as highlight scenes. Also to expand the scope of the scenery, for example, a forest seen in a huge mirror making the forest huge expanded into the far distance!
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Thank you for the information on mirrors. I feel a little more confident in adding it to my work. I really love the goat eating dynamite. Always a nice touch.
That mine is fantastic. The concept of "Smoke and mirrors" to lengthen it is stunning.
Yes I agree!
About you mentioned you like point-to-point layouts and you're making your layout an actual point-to-point with eyes and turntables, I always say to myself it's that individuals layout they can do what they like with it, me I like continuous run layouts, where the train runs in continuous loops, that's always been my favorite kind of layout
Great video. John Allen was probably the first influential person to use mirrors and he offered numerous ideas on how to further hide the illusion.
Yup. Brilliant. But a first. John Allen changed the hobby.
The goat eating dynamite is EXCELLENT‼️💯 Love the quirkiness of your scene and the imagination you two bring to it. Keep up the amazing work. 😁
Great idea's and alot of work figuring out the mirrors. Thank you for sharing it with us. Love how they turned out. The mine looks so much bigger how too. Can't wait to see Karyn's goat come to life. See you Tuesday.
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Love your night pictures! Perfect on the lights ✨️ 👌. The mirrors are something I didn't realize but you guys think of it all. 😊
Very cool video. The mirror in the mineshaft is genius!
Thanks!!!
Great ideas. It reminded me of this cracker box of an apartment I rented in college. It was supposed to be a studio apartment at some point they put mirrors along one wall to the bathroom. It gave it depth that's for sure.
Cheep footage I guess.
What an excellent way of using a mirror.
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Very, very clever on the mine mirror Dale! I have a HOn18 I want to model and that would work great…thanks for the idea.
The Lark Mine Tunnel turned out amazing with the optical mirror!
Dale, there are 2 ways you can fix the crossing-turntable-intersection. Because mine-car wheels turn independently on the axles, you could follow prototype mine practice and run the car off the end of the track onto a steel plate, turn the car on the flanges of the wheels, then push the car onto the appropriate track. This was done in some industries that used track like in a mine to move material and parts. The transition is done by tapering the rails onto the plate, bring the plate up to slightly lift the car, or turn each rail toward the outside of the track creating a J shape. The turntable can have an appropriate mark or groove for the flanges at half the gauge so it shows up in the mirror. The turntable should be in a square plate to hold the table, approaches(you know). I have seen one or two turntables in mines of these mine explorers put up on TH-cam that have rail attached to the table; if you did that, you could use rails parallel and one crossing set at 45* so the 2 rails are against the mirror and it would be very difficult to see the mirror.
I wasn’t sure what they did exactly. I have seen photos of “turntables” in mines. And single point kick switches. Odd and interesting.
@@ToyManTelevision I found an intersection plate for you. th-cam.com/video/uJLkuF7BkpI/w-d-xo.html
This is not the only one, but this one just came up.
Very Neatoe Dale
Thanks!!!
@@ToyManTelevision you bets ya well deserved Say Dale you hear anything solid yet about 4014 finally going to do its "Western-Swing" ie; Ogden SLC Elko , Reno then CA.?
@@bernardc2553 hi. I think it’s on. 😊
John Allen was using mirrors similarly and used at least one box car with backwards lettering. But your system topped his artistry.
Well he was the pioneer. Genus!!
This will sound unlikely, but if you hang a short curtain in the door of the paint booth, from the ceiling to the height of the paint booth table, it will significantly improve the realism of the mirrored area.
Great video, and the long mine is fantastic!
I like the power pole lights.
They came out great. Now for wires.
I have never concidered this before. what a great idea. Might have to give this a try
A reflection on this is you can say it's mine!
Thx again
Lol! Thanks🧨😀
An alternate suggestion for the 'End of Yard' scene is to use a cloud backdrop and a 3 stall 'car barn', or freight terminal, where "the cars" would back into the building. Love the mine scene 🙂
Yup. Love that effect. And can work with a mirror!!
What a wealth of information in this video. Really enjoyed this one!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
Well done. I have seen the pictures you posted and knew it was a mirror. However, I thought you had done two mirrors with the front a one-way mirror for the front one.
Similar to the "Infinity mirror mineshaft coffee table"
Excellent work with the mirrors, I just love watching your imagination work. The angles of placing the mirrors make the scenes so believable. Very nice work Dale.
Thank you very much!
Great ideas 💡 I never thought of using mirrors thanks for sharing
Great vidio, like the mine mirror's , sure looks real. Hummm the Caseyville mines are in for an update...Thanks for the morning coffee...
Thanks, you too! Mines are better than mimes. Just saying.
Great video you packed so much information and made it applicable to all guages. Good work
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!!! Still messing with the huge mirror scene. A few more ideas there.
The details, always the details. Figuring out how to overcome the detail problems can either make you proud or pull what hair you might have out.
I know you have a reason, but could you not drop the logging railroad down and connect it to the rest of the layout? I know the big mirror comes into play here, but a switch and another trestle would look super.
Oh well, this is not my railroad, it is yours, do it all your way. ;-)
Dale, in mines, where they have an intersection and don't want to build a switch; they put down a heavy steel plate so they can turn the mine car on. It's called a slip sheet
You must be the same folks who owned or set up the cool magic mirror shop in Frankenmuth MI, featuring an old west town and Elivs Presley diner. Neatest illusions we ever saw as tourists.
Nope!! Coolest though 😁🤩😁🚂🚂🚀🚀🚀
Hiya! Really nice seeing all these areas. And, a part of modelling is creating illusions with "smoke and mirrors", ...or the latter at least. I have seen people (not many though) create place names that are reversible: looking the same reflected or not.
I'm itching to get active with videos and models again. Fighting Facebook to reclaim my account has been my main objective recently and I actually just got back from London where I called in to their HQ. No-one would come to help me!
Anyway, speak soon!
Hi. They locked Karyn. No idea why. No way to recover it too. Sigh. Sigh. Anyway new account. She can see the old one… but not alter it.
Dear Dale and Karyn, absolutely magnificent video! First of all for the remembrance you’ve put in, from the basements to Steve’s mine, all fitted with mirrors. Second, for all the different techniques and tricks you’ve shown on how to use mirrors. Love how you’ve explained the how to avoid the gap from the normal glass mirrors and the reverse lettering. Cool to see the mirrors on the spray booth, and for the logging railroad. The mine mirrors are absolutely astonishing. Curious for your next episodes, both on the trestle, the furthering of the logging railroad and the stub end of the yard next to the spray booth. Apart from the surgical first surface mirrors, some art stores also sell variants of a first surface mirror with plastic backing. Cheerio
I was nervous about using this optical glass mirror. But don made short work of cutting it. It’s much more durable than the plastic ones. Should be no need to clean it but if so it’s easy to get to and difficult to scratch.
PS. In addition to John Allen, the late W. Allen McClelland and, I think Tony Koester(on his Allegheny Midland) used mirrors in strategic locations.
Very John Allen of you
Thanks!!!!!!
There is a type of "fake" greenery that you can put outside to use for privacy. You can adjust the size I think. It's a lattice with ivy or vines on it. You could get or (knowing you two) make something like that and hang it on the front of your paint booth. Just lift it off of the hooks when you want to paint and hang it back up when you are done painting.
Appropriate use of the ESD safe tweezers ! ;)
All mirrors and no smoke!!!😄
Always love your videos. Great idea. I use mirrors in my real outdoor garden too.
One question I want to move into my garage too with my G scale, what is the depth of that shelf and the spacing between the tracks? I want to get three tracks like you so any advice you can give would be great. Thank you for all these ideas.
24”. And that’s narrow. That’s as narrow as I could make it. Plan on 8” per track. But the front track doesn’t need the full 8” as there is nothing to run into on the front edge. Yet you don’t want a derailed train to fall off. So 4” from the backdrop to the center on track one. 8” between the center of track one and two. 8” from the center of track two to the center of track three and 4” from the center of track three to the edge.
Mirror, mirror LIE to me Lie!!!! Very clever indeed!!!!
Have you thought about a metal mirror? I had one back in Boy Scouts. It was a highly polished piece of stainless steel.
I was thinking of that but really hard to cut.
That is so Very Cool!
Thanks!
That is great 😊
Thanks!
I have a roundhouse with mirrors in the walls. It looks like there are three interconnecting roundhouses.
Love that goat 🐐
Thanks. Check out tomorrow’s show on that.
Use a front surface mirror. Cheapest place to find one would be in a projection TV.
The one we have is from Amazon. $13!
magic of illusion
What happened to rat fink
He’s up there on his shelf! We were planning to go to the reunion this year. But something always comes up! This time the NMRA SW region convention in Flagstaff.
Expand-o-lot.
put a door over the paint booth and paint the rest of the building ...
Was thinking that…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the best model railroaders on You Tube🚂🛤
Hi!!!! Thanks!!