Adding even more color

 Well, after doing the fascia, it was time to think about the backdrops as I am now adding some webbing to begin land forms and the backdrop has to be done before I can do plastering in the foreground. My daughter, Julie, came for a couple of days to squeeze in some time showing me how to work with acrylics to create distant hills. We went to Michael's and bought a selection of colors in tubes along with a No. 12 round brush.

 Julie, is showing the palette of greens and the colors she used to create them before we started. We gravitated towards the darker greens as it is summer and the hills seem to be darker than in the early Fall.

 I first put up some Masonite scraps to show the top of the land form. I do not want to glue to the sheet rock as that will make a mess when I am gone. I made a mistake and carried the Masonite over a valley and we had to go back and repair that later.

 Julie has started with the distant hills and they came out surprisingly well. She is essentially just pushing the brush onto the wall to create a tree canopy.

 Rose came down to check out what was happening in the train room with her Mom. Fortunately, Memere was able to keep the children occupied upstairs and at a local beach while Mom worked with Grandpa.

 Here is a view of the start of what we were doing. In the narrow strip it looks great.

 Now she added the valley after I took out the offending Masonite. The foreground of the hill will have to be covered with some sort of trees in 3D to make this work.

As you can see, the distant view looks like trees on a hill side - so that works. The problem is that there is no room for anything significant in front of the backdrop. The track is just about 5 inches from the wall. So, I had planned a road to be there but I am going to have to find some building photos for a small town. I will paste them to the wall as building fronts. I will also add some trees to go into the space behind the station and the other building. I will have to go out and find weeds to make trees out of. I have plenty of weeds around here but I need something like Goldenrod. I am also going to spray the top of the hill with a white to blend it more into the blue and make it look further away.