As a late comer to model railways, and having worked on just two layouts, in some ways I don't feel I have the experience to make conclusive comments. (Here comes the however). However, from the moment I started viewing layouts, I felt that the background scenes had a great deal to play in how good they looked. I saw numerous displays which had wondrous modelling and weathering, but which were badly let down by their backgrounds. What was clearly years of great work seemed to have been spoiled b
