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…...……...--- Bears Ears Summit Backdrop – The Bears Ears ---=======================================

Next backdrop to be pained is on the opposite side of the backdrop from the sawmill scene. The upper level scene here is suppose to represent the mainline summit on the way to the sawmill.

I’ve tried to model scenes that are in the surrounding area and this backdrop scene is another example of this. The Bears Ears are two small peaks about 25 miles west of us that we can see out the living room window. They are on the top of a high mesa and you can see them from over 80 miles away in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. There are over 1000 year old Anasazi ruins near them and spectacular views down 2500+ feet into canyons by them. The area there and in a large part of our county that is Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and Wilderness was designated as the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

I can see the Bears Ears from the house but wanted to get pictures of them from a little further to the north so drove north a few miles by one of our reservoirs and took a series of photos of them and also the South and North Long Point ridges running to the south and north of them along with Milk Ranch Point (ridge) in front of them.

I ended up with a number of photos and used paint.net to crop them and position them closer together (above). I also printed the final image to about 6 inches high which was about how high I want them to be above the foam scenery on the layout.

The following images should tell the rest of the story. If you need more just ask.

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I’ve worked a lot on the scenery the past 6 months wanting to get it done while I still can and also before the track goes down. I knew this backdrop was going to be hard to paint from the start but wanted the scene so much that I went ahead with it and glad that I did.

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Wilson Arch is 45 miles to the north of us south of Moab, Utah. The other landmarks on the backdrop are 20-25 miles west of us and can be seen from the house. We are on a 6000 ft mesa here and can see a long ways, 30 miles past Monument Valley (80 miles) to the mountains by Telluride, Co. (100 miles) and 180 miles of desert and mountain landscape between them.

I’m glad that I made the scenery removable where my feet had to go. The scenery below and to the sides of the new backdrop scene is also removable.

Next up ……….. Clouds.

A link to this whole build ( HERE ).

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