02-28-2011, 11:07 PM
Gary - to my eye the Walgreens building and scene looks super. The street somehow looks like a dust storm or fog has rolled in...maybe too much gray? As for the street lights and all that wire, I think you should definately find a way to work it in somehow. All the lines and wires in your prototype picture really add to the urban feel. Drawing them on with a pen or even pencil might work fine. Modeling power lines is tricky. Plenty of great ways to do poles...lines, not so much.
I have found that wire works better to model ropes and, sometimes string works better to model wire. Go figure. But most of the time wire holds its shape and can be carefully curved to hang the way you need it to. A little off topic, but I DO NOT like the stretchy string used on the pre-wired telephone poles...looks too taut to be power lines or telephone lines.
Why not paint the line on the backdrop and glue on a styrene streetlight?
Galen
I have found that wire works better to model ropes and, sometimes string works better to model wire. Go figure. But most of the time wire holds its shape and can be carefully curved to hang the way you need it to. A little off topic, but I DO NOT like the stretchy string used on the pre-wired telephone poles...looks too taut to be power lines or telephone lines.
Why not paint the line on the backdrop and glue on a styrene streetlight?
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!