Building and painting backdrops

Whether you're looking for a simple sky-blue scene divider or a detailed mountain vista, adding scenic backdrops to your layout isn't hard with help from some experts. This set of five articles explores several approaches to building backdrops and then offers a number of methods for painting them. Along the way you'll learn a little about forced perspective too, a technique that makes your modeled scenery look farther away than it really is. (14 pages, 928 KB)