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RB...Been meaning to ask...Are your backdrops "home made" or commercial..?? If commercial, where did you get them from? They really make your scenes come to life...

They're half and half. The town was copied and pasted from some backdrop photos online. I don't remember where anymore. The forested hills were also copied and pasted in pieces and put together in Paint. The buildings and hills aren't near as sharp as they appear. Within a foot or two they appear as a bunch of fuzzy pixels that resemble structures and such but further away and especially in photos they look much better. The sky background is blue poster board that's been painted nimble blue and the clouds were copied and pasted from online then cut out and glued to the poster board then lightly touched up with spray paint.

The backdrop/background I have now is a commercial one purchased from Busch some years ago. I think I got the last ones they had as I haven't seen anymore when I went back to look. The sky background is as before, poster board, nimble blue flat latex paint. The clouds were sprayed on.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into this, although spraying the clouds (which are VERY realistic) might be beyond my abilities....