There's always a certain stage in layout construction, that when you reach it. You say to yourself.

"Yes. That's it. It's feeling like a layout now. "

I reached that stage today.

It happened when I fixed the ScenicKing background in place to get a feel for how the light colored structures would stand out. This background works quite well, much of the wheat field (for this is the "wheat field" background) will be hidden behind a high wall and other structures. The hole in the wall exit to the "fiddle yard" will be hidden by trees. It's a nice background. It was the cheapest in the store so I lucked out there. It came as a pack of sheets which will stretch out to about 15 feet by eight inches. Eight inches being perfect for the APA box interior the way I have things set up. Fifteen feet means I have plenty left for other APA layouts

Still fiddling with the layout of the structures and how to make the hopper loading work , but overall I'm feeling quite pleased with the way things are going