The Harbour

 The harbour received its final rework, I hope.

This side of the harbour had a corner filled in, behind the green boat, to make way for a small road. The station was moved next to the lighthouse. You can see the picture mockup on the backdrop, which will be Norwich. 

This side of the harbour had a little corner added to the left of the boat repair building. The red barn was added to the green building to form a large fish plant. A large corner of land was added there to make room for it.

Easy, basic clouds.

 Even though these clouds are easy, they can be dramatic! Most of the time the backdrop should not over power the layout itself, so no dramatic clouds today. These clouds will be made in a few easy steps.

Put a blob of white paint (I use to me paint) in one corner of your paint holder. Load a round brush by pushing one side of the brush into the paint.

Use the heavily loaded edge to create the upper, rounded top of several billowing clouds. Use light pressure for this step. Make each arc, of a bank of clouds, a little different. 

You will notice your brush is running out of paint at which point start under pinning the clouds with smudges of paint, using hard pressure until you have exhausted all of the brush's paint. If you press even harder you can create the little, fluffy clouds like the ones on the right. You will see in the above picture that this application seems darker and less defined, and your cloud already looks not to bad. You my notice, at the top right I have two parallel rows of bright cloud lines, don't do that! These bright edges, caused by the sun shining on that side of the cloud, should curve down, as you see below. You should let some of the blue sky show through in some areas, to give the next bright layer a darker backdrop. 

Curries Station backbrop.

 Started thinking about the backdrop between Curries and Burgessville. I know 59 highway continues straight as it travels south of Burgessville. Going back to the article about continuing your scenery into your backdrop I picked another picture from that article. It had the straight road but it had fall type foliage, a pole and railroad crossbucks in the foreground of the picture. So I used yellow, on the grassy area, and a couple of shades of green to cover up the areas of orange tree leaves and the pole and crossbucks. The painted picture will be glued to the backdrop and further blended into the scenery.