Trying to paint a mural for my Dad's N Scale Train Set. Was wondering and its probably an deasy thing but how big ar things compared to real life I want to make the landmarks true to life size. Is there a formula or something?
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Trying to paint a mural for my Dad's N Scale Train Set. Was wondering and its probably an deasy thing but how big ar things compared to real life I want to make the landmarks true to life size. Is there a formula or something?
Hey Jonathan, you trying to hijack the thread or something?????? 
Seriously, is there any reason you made this request in the middle of a current thread in the Layout Design and Planning forum?
I think you'd be much better off creating a brand new thread, probably in the General Discussion forum. I think you are much more likely to get some responses there!
Oh yes, welcome to nScale.net! Do you happen to have any nScale aspirations of your own?
'N' scale (US 'N' scale) is 1:160th of the real thing, but to give your scene some perception of depth (perspective), you have to paint objects that are to appear further away, smaller.
As a guesstimation; a building painted on a backdrop that was immediately behind the track would be painted to scale, but a building at the back of a field might only be half that size... to get an idea of ratios, look at pictures of similar scenes that contain aspects of that you wish to paint, and compare the buildings in the foreground and background...
[edit] Do a Google search on "perspective drawing", to get some ideas.
This is way more than you need to know, but you did ask if there was a formula 
Mathematics of Perspective Drawing.
Bryan
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