Mosslanda: Night Shift - Less is more…

Balancing a layout is especially important in the smaller scales - and smaller layouts. This goes beyond detail and caricature, scenic contrast and detail levels must also be considered for our choices here help guide the viewer and interpret the scene, to tell their own stories in its compact form…It had always been my intention to add light inside the warehouse, so that it poured out of the doorway onto the layout - a layer of contrast, the inside out, light and dark and accentuating the contrast.I’ve been putting off this step as it required a soldering iron again, but over the bank holiday my resolve to push this one over the line saw not only the case work painted, but yes, a white (rather than warm white) LED selected and fitted… however, below, I wasn’t sure…Standing back and taking a look I felt it was too much of a contrast. I’d lost something of the original composition, like its light level seemed to distract from the overall scene. I asked my good friend Chris what he…