Wow

What a great-looking scene, so much depth.  Looks fantastic. 

Randy

Details - your a master

The scene is very nice, I have an urgent need of climbing up the hill and take a look behind...In other words, more pictures please!

Rick, The illusion of

Rick,

The illusion of distance and color balance between the foreground scenery and background is spot on! Nice job!

Tom

Looking Good

Rick - your foreground scenery is blending wonderfully with the backdrop; I'm impressed.
Hope to see much more of this - I'm busy thinking around backdrop issues, so the more inspiration the better.

Rob Clark
Cornhill & Atherton RR

Wow....

I think it looks great Rick and I'm normally not that big a fan of photo backdrops. Looks to me though like you have an excellent transition between the two.  If I recall, you used an airbrush to make that haze on your backdrop right?  I know that took some guts but I think the effect is really convincing.

Michael

Lots of progress

So are you thinking about what the next layout will look like?  Looking good.  Keep the pictures coming.

+1

Spectacular work Rick, the effect is amazing!

Excellent Rick Top notch!  

Excellent Rick

Top notch!

High Hills in Florida

Great job! Certainly isn't in Florida, but who cares? Very well done and come out west and teach the rest of

us for a really big moutain. I think your blending of foreground and background photo was very well done>

Dick Foster

Sonoma CA

Peek-a-boo

Seeing the tops of the buildings over the ridge creates a tantalizing effect - they are just the right scale to make my brain totally buy the illusion of distance and depth. The colors, the distant haze, the bright skyline, masterful! Nice work.

Jeff Allen

Richlawn RR V2 - Corner hills detail work

Rick,

I heartily concur with all the accolades-great work!

Dante

Seeing the tops of the

Seeing the tops of the buildings over the ridge creates a tantalizing effect - they are just the right scale to make my brain totally buy the illusion of distance and depth. [sunacres - Jeff Allen]

Agreed. Top job.

Mike

Ya done well! Great touch

As Always

Would any of us expect anything less? I think not. Next chapter, please.

Thank you all

I appreciate your kind words!  It's fun to work on the railroad and see things start to take form.

It does make a very nice scene ...

Where are the tracks?

The tracks...

Dave O. - if you look in the lower right corner of the picture you can barely see the end of a section of track that is now a scenic railway track that continues on around the the other side of the layout and ends just before Buck and Loretta's place.  It will have a shuttle control with a tourist train.  Out of view of the picture towards the front is the mainline track that will pass in front of Palmer Asbestos.  

ah ... got it.

That backdrop really is very good quality.  I honestly had to go back to your other blog entry to see if the flags were part of the backdrop or part of the scenery ....  Thanks for sharing.