Tonight I managed to find time to attack the backscene again. I cut out the slots for the framing from the bottom of the left board's backscene, and glued it in place with the aid of several wedges to hold it against the back of the front top. Whilst that was setting, I started painting the right board backscenes. I picked up a tester pot of sky blue paint last time I was in Homebase, and used this as a base coat. By painting one end to the the other, I managed to get two coats on most of the backscene tonight - the second coat did a much better job of hiding the variations in the wood. It is starting to look like a proper layout now.