The easiest bit of my backscene is the sea to the west of my layout. It's inspired by the view from West St Leonards with Hastings seafront to the west and Beachy Head to the right.

In my last post I showed how I set up my backscene and created the sky.  For the sea behind my layout I cut a 100mm x 3000mm strip of lining paper and airbrushed that with a slightly varying dark teal colour and stuck that so that the top was completely level to simulate the horizon.  

For the NW corner of my layout I then added to more bits of lining paper one for the shingle beach and one for Beachy Head.  The beach gradually curves from upright to horizontal to create the illusion of depth and I sprinkled sharp sand and scatter scenery to simulate the shingle beach

I used yet another bit of lining paper to simulate Bexhill in the distance  and then when that was done I could add grass, some scratch built beach huts and a tea room. There's more to do here like add figure benches etc. but you get the idea:

The South West corner is inspired by Hastings Seafront fading to Fairlight in the distance.  Again I used collage and painted the scene on lining paper and created a curving up beach to meet the sea and this scene. This looks a bit bent because it's the corner of the layout but it is square  and mrs Deepfat likes it and that is good enough for me. I've added some more scratch bult beach hits and some foreshortened fishing boats like there are at Bulverhythe if you have ever been there

 I am no Canaletto but I this is good enough for me and now I have done the backscene, I am going to paint & ballast the track in front of it to test out how to do it and to get the look I want