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Backdrop view down city street - Model Railroader Magazine

A friend gave me a couple of printed-on-paper structures done from photos of real buildings.  I mounted them on .060" sheet styrene, then stuck them at the end of a couple of streets which dead-ended at one wall of the layout room, "suggesting" that there was a cross street at the end of the modelled city block...

I think that they look decent-enough at the proper viewing angle, but not so convincing if you simply walked into the room to look around...

I thought these scenes to be fairly convincing...

...but this view pretty-well reveals the ruse...

Now, with the partial second level in place, the view, shown in the last photo above, is no longer possible...

On the partial upper level, I have some streets which dead-end at the tracks, and also dead-end at the wall.  I  built the faux overpasses as part of a plan to use photos or a painted street scene of commercial buildings receding in the distance, but it would also be one of those "looks right at one viewing angle", but "not so right from another"....

I'll eventually figure out something suitable.

Wayne