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Even allowing for the angle and the challenges of space it needs to be bigger: mottes are meant to dominate and that doesn’t clear the roof line of the goods shed by nearly enough.
 

The forced perspective would be more effective if the representation showed the whole thing. to get the height in the space you’ll have to increase the angle of the slope of the motte, but the present arrangement looks more cutting than Castle.  Modern - damaging - tree growth would make disguise a bit easier and perhaps that’s a way forward? To allow that to have happened earlier?

 

Adam

In the first photo I think it looks good. I can believe the forced perspective and therefore believe that the motte is bigger than it really is but more distant. I also like the winding path - it left me in no doubt about what I was meant to be seeing. Perhaps you can enhance the illusion further by de-saturating the colours progressively up the motte when you come to do the scenic work.

 

The other viewing angles reveal the reality but this is as expected since they are not the angles from which the forced perspective is expected to work. I am not sure what you can do about that. Even if you model less of the motte and push more of it to back-scene, you will still not get the correct impression from these other angles since back-scenes only work properly when viewed face on. The best forced perspective models I have seen control the viewing angle very precisely to a specific point through a proscenium arch. That is not really an option with this layout. Nearly all of us are forced in to difficult compromises due to space

 

On a more general point, I think your buildings and track look really good.

 

 

Edited November 20, 2020 by goldngreen

Thanks for the comments, as you say trying to use forced perspective when you can't force the site lines is next to impossible. I think I'm going to have a go at making it a bit taller and also trying to make the slope more defined as it drops down quite sharply toward the station building end.

I found a couple more pictures which show the relationship between the goods shed and motte in a better angle. Also it shows that there is a bit of wall which could run against the backscene.