Photo 1 Ayala Museum Diorama depicting urban plaza bisected by horse-drawn street car (not a trolley car as there is no over-head electricity)
Photo 4 Photographer Unknown The ship in this Ayala Museum diorama appears to be split down the middle (a la "false front") so to save room.
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The dioramas at the Philippines' Ayala Museum have much to teach model railroaders in terms of techniques. Notice the use of single point perspective with the open air horse-drawn street car tracks Photo 1. Now, don't try this with your train tracks, though a dummy track might benefit from this technique if ample room is available. Better to save this technique for a road that travels from one's fascia to the backdrop.
When photographing a model railroad, a larger scale figure can be propped at the fascia edge of the layout to utilize reduced scale to create a sense of perspective; that seems to be what is at play here in this Ayala Museum street car diorama Photo 1. Also notice that the rear of this diorama scene Photo 1 seems to be a combination of a false front and a painted building using perspective. Also instructive is how this diorama employs the reduced scale technique with a small figure in the city plaza Photo 1.
Notice how the people in the crowd closest to the building are painted in a smaller scale that the figures in the diorama in Photo 2.
Though the diorama in Photo 3 appears to be effective, this technique of capturing a figure in stopped motion is generally not considered effective in a model railroad. Perhaps the difference is that in a model railroad a contrast exists between the stop action figure and trains that are in motion?
In Photo 4, the ship modeled in this diorama appears to be split down the middle (a la "false front") so to save room. This is a technique that can be readily applied in most any model railroad. Also note that at three different scale figures are utilized on this ship diorama Photo 4.
The Ayala Museum in located in the nation's capital, Manila. More specifically, it is located in the Makati Central Business District. The Philippine Diorama Experience tells the history of the Philippines in sixty dioramas. A disclaimer is in order here, your blogger has never visited the Ayala Museum in person.
Revised December 20 2020
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