PJBambrick

Take a tree from the box and colour match it exactly with artist acrylics, then practice copying it by stippling the foliage with an old splayed out brush about 5mm wide. Just keep going till you get the knack and you can't tell them apart The main thing with trees though, is to paint what's behind them first, so drop in a curved piece of white mounting card behind, and work out the background using 'Generate a panorama' Yours is very interesting.....

Very nearly done now, just the footbridge to do, some more 4-6-0 engines, carriages and stock weathering.......A few pics, with the background info at: https://kingswearinp4.weebly.com/latest-news.html

Sorry about that....I managed to lose my mobile phone, and I was offsite that day,.(where there's no signal anyway) . Email or landline are still OK. https://bambrickstudio.co.uk/latest-news/ Cheers......PJB

New half hour Bucks Hill movie clip

Thanks....looking NW towards Well End, & W overThames.

Bourne End looking North....Autumn 1955

0.9mm soft ally, cut to size. works every time. https://www.alloysales.co.uk/aluminium-sheet-cut-to-order

Thanks John....Yard light poles and wharf bollards done now, more detailing and locomotive pics soon. Lots of work going on behind the scenes, and we are looking for info & photos of Bradford, and other cross country services in terms of stock info and configuration. Ideally 1947. A few landscape photos as requested rest at. https://kingswearinp4.weebly.com/landscape.html

We must get round to doing some pics of the pre'47 era P4 engines soon, but they still need a little work to modernise them, and one or two still require detailing, paint & lining. The main things now are to finish the larger engines, the MV 'Alacrity' coaster, and get the footbridge built. There is a wartime 2mm Kingswear exhibition model, and there's Kingsbridge Regis. https://www.cmra.org.uk/exhib18/34.html https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/threads/wencombe-kingsbridge-regis-louville-lane.513/ John Hayes.... small prairie cab, soon to receive Modelu crew. Looking out to sea, with the far horizon, One Gun Point, St Petrox Church and Warfleet Creek to the right.

Thanks Re6/6.... I bet that's got the best view! It's on Church Hill if I remember. This one was Carlton House in '47, without the modern add ons, it's at the northern junction of Higher St and Fore St, done in cream with blue quoins and window mouldings. The tall red brick building two houses along Higher St was a sail loft, so presumably it had no upper floor?

Thanks for great feedback.....forgot to mention Youtube clips. https://www.youtube.com/@kingswearinp414/videos

Nearly finished, but still have to do the footbridge, some more boats (good progress lately with this), and get a few of the larger locomotives done. More details at... https://kingswearinp4.weebly.com/

Put up a mockup white card rear panel as tall as possible and as far as you can behind the rails, draw the horizon line (sea level) at your optimum viewing height, then plot the layout observer's viewpoint into 'Generate a Panorama'. Align the horizons, and that's the first step. https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/panqueryfull.aspx?mode=newstandard&data=lon:0.74753$$$lat:51.44482$$$alt:auto$$$altcam:40$$$hialt:false$$$resolution:20$$$azimut:315$$$sweep:360$$$leftbound:135$$$rightbound:135$$$split:60$$$splitnr:6$$$tilt:-3.125$$$tiltsplit:false$$$elexagg:1.2$$$range:300$$$colorcoding:false$$$colorcodinglimit:33$$$title:Zugspitze$$$description:$$$email:$$$language:en$$$screenwidth:1920$$$screenheight:977

I do have some flint infill to do on Bourne End, and I'm going to stipple it from a palette with thick acrylics. Best if the brick surrounds are slightly proud, so maybe do one with all the infill area recessed ? Make a mask for the bricks, stipple, then do the red brick edges with a rule, and some ref from Bourne End. Worth a try.

The first thing is to do the level horizon datum, then work out the kind of skyline you want (Generate a panorama), and then make the houses and other elements of the backscene recede in scale progressively from layout scale to far distance.