Going to have to work on my HALO (High Alititude Low Opening) techniques then. 30,000 ft and going… DOWNNNNnn.

Put the trees and hedges back up again and have another look.
Creating a backscene from a montage of the photos taken in Wales is well within my capabilities, painting is another thing altogether. Hmmm, looks OK to me…





Here we go, here we go, here we go…

From this, bare backboard and test bit….





To a plain sky blue across the entire board, including painting over the test bit…





How's that look with the trees and new hedges… a darn sight better than the brown wood, could leave it at that but once begun..





White washed cloud/haze, whiter at the horizon and bluer higher in the sky… could leave it there too…





But it's holidays and this is really a lot of fun… 2 days worth so far.

 

Marty you're cooking with gas! The whole thing - 2D backscene and 3D scenery - looks marvellous.

Mike

It does, Marty.  :thumbs

Love the trees:doublethumb

Thanks Mike and Max…

Encouraged by the results achieved there was no stopping me… 8 hours a day for 3 days trying to get further clouds to look like clouds… several attempts in fact to get clouds to look like clouds.
Each failed attempt requiring a repaint of the sky blue and a new begining until finally a Eureka moment and it all came together into something that was hopefully close enough.








and





Any constructive thoughts welcome.

Congratulations Marty, you have achieved a superb result :doublethumb

[user=519]3801[/user] wrote:

Love the trees:doublethumb

Thanks Warren,

More about them in the Marty's N scale trees thread in the monthly forum project if you are interested.

[user=363]Janner[/user] wrote:

Congratulations Marty, you have achieved a superb result :doublethumb

And I agree with Johns' statement  :thumbs

Wow!  That looks amazing, Marty.  Great clouds!  Tick, VG - Elephant stamp!  :thumbs

Marty

You have done really well with the backscenes they look superb folowing Mikes tutorial and experimenting you have produced a marvelous result.

A Cornish Chough stamp for what you have done there

Brian

Shouldn't that be a Chug stamp HP? :pedal

Cheers

Speechless

That backboard looks sooooooooooooooooooooo real :thumbs

As you have been awarded nearly everyaward going, I feel that I should award you a 1st class Devon Cream Tea :cheers

Thanks again guys, I must admit that I'm pleased with the progress so far and it's been a huge amount of fun!!

Something else that has been fun and has been driven by the development of the backscene is work on the Pencader and Pentrecourt Halt section of the board.
Wanting now to try my hand at a bit of landscape painting it became further apparent that completing the 3D landforms in front of the painted backscene would dictate where hills and fields could be seen between the trees.

Before the holidays it looked like this:





and now it looks like this:








In the distance the hillside and tunnel that will form the view block between the layout and the cassette train storage system.
Slightly closer the rail bridge over the River Teifi and near left the level area next to the track where Pentrecourt Halt (MK II) will go.

The bridge has mdf piers covered with scalescenes grey brick and the beginnings of a scratchbuilt plasticard girder.




This shot just encourages me to get on with it…





cheers

 

That last one is just great. Something to be really proud of, Marty. A Queensland cane toad stamp has been awarded too!

Mike

Very impressive Marty.

[user=8]MikeC[/user] wrote:

That last one is just great. Something to be really proud of, Marty. A Queensland cane toad stamp has been awarded too!

Mike

Now Mike, Marty is surely not going to be impressed with a cane toad stamp considering the pest they are?:twisted:

I must admit Sol, Alan's Devonshire tea stamp is the best so far

I'm with Mike on this one Marty.  That last shot is just superb. :pathead

The clouds look so realistic it's hard to believe what you started with.  When you've been to do Sol's painting, hows about a short break in France …………………..(I'll pay for the paint :roll:)

Good work, Marty.

Excellent results Marty. The terrain looks really good too, as though the railway has carved its way through the landscape.

Bob(K)