Bob,
Certainly, we used a "cold mount" system. It basically put some
'sticky' between the photo and the Masonite. A roller system squeezed
the two together--we did some large pieces and since the system was
based on rollers, it worked until either the photo or the base ran out.
I've never noticed any problem with the glue or Masonite causing any
staining from behind. That being said, I've started to replace some of
the RR rail fanning images I have displayed on my RR room. I do have UV
protective tubes encasing the fluorescent tubes, but after being hung
for over 20 years now, they've faded. Those images were the standard
Kodak or 3M photographic paper. I don't have any long term results from
the newer Epson type inks that are supposed to last a lifetime.
Let me qualify my background, it is basically a painted background. I
have blue sky with puffy clouds airbrushed in place. Much of the lower
areas have some hills, forests with some buildings to come painted
directly on the hardboard. I actually don't use much actual
photo-realistic work except for some building cutouts. I had those made
several years ago by conventional darkroom methods. I had shot some
slides on vacation of some neat building (Werre's Building Fronts
series, LOL). I gave my lab's color printer a Grandt Line window
casting and told her to make the windows approximately the same size.
My daughter works in a FedEx/Kinko's location, so she offered to help
me. I had started working on making some photo backgrounds for our
modules. I pretty much did what you have done, by picking a scene and
then merging it with a mirror version. The idea was to print directly
unto plastic material--no paste ups. I was aiming for about 16" by
16'. It turns out that's very expensive. Also I wasn't certain what
the durability would be as far as scratching or crimping goes. This
background would cover 2 six foot modules plus one 4 foot. A situation
where one is doing a background for a 'scene' on a layout (3 to 10 foot)
might be a lot different than covering a 90+' continuous background,
where things should be matching end for end. I could see lot's of
problems, although the possibilities of adding buildings, forests, and
perhaps addition virtual rail-yards could make that very unique besides
being challenging! I'm just the certain if I want that much of a challenge.
Bob Werre
>
> Bob:
>
> So, is mounting my photo backdrops on Masonite, with no long-term
> effects, possible?
>
> Bob Nicholson ____________________________________________
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