Even before I had really gotten into the tunnels, I finally figured I’d learned enough about paper mache to take a run at it. I also wanted to test to see if the 12" of space I’d left between levels was enough to get the visual effects I wanted without compromising too much. So I decided to work on ‘Iago’ station.
Here, I got a bit more ‘clever’. Rather than merely finding it on Google Earth and sketching it out, I devised a way to print, with my inkjet, a mosaic of photos, which when printed were in n-scale size. This allowed me to accurately align the roadbed and mountains. I was so pleased with figuring out how to do that – it would make life a lot easier, esp. when it came to modelling Hope BC.
In the event, I was pleased with the way the second level came out. 12 inches left just enough detail. Of course, by now I had accepted that for some items, like bridges and rivers, they would have to cut into the scene below. There was no way around that. Some of the bridges in scale were into canyons upwards of 7-8 inches deep. Oh well. At least now I knew.