Modeling Series Layout Builds Olympia Projects Olympia Logging Series: Part 12 – Backdrop painting

Olympia Logging Series: Part 12 – Backdrop painting

By Rene Schweitzer | July 3, 2014

| Last updated on November 7, 2022

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Using little more than a cardstock template and a couple paint colors, artist Jay Smith shows viewers just how quick and easy it is to add a realistic pine forest treeline to MRVP’s On30 Olympia Logging Co. layout. Jay used his favorite internal mix airbrush to apply the paint, but his simply technique for making distant trees on a backdrop also works using spray paint.

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