... quality. There is no need to provide features to fill any empty space, the idea is to make such areas transparent. That's why we are using the GIF format. (The paving looks very attractive, but I don't recall ever seeing such expensive work outside a signal box.) Here is your image cropped to the bottom of the steps, and with your paved area made transparent instead: 2_191552_330000000.gif Here is the view of that in my graphics editor -- transparent areas are normally shown as a grey chequerboard effect: 2_191556_360000000.png Here is the view on the sketchboard. The image scales to 73ft x 18ft, so I set it to 292mm x 72mm in 4mm/ft scale. I rotated it so that the steps are facing the station in the usual way, and the stove-pipe is at the rear of the box. I added a patch of rough ground colour to illustrate the transparent effect: 2_191557_010000000.png Here is the same, back on the workpad: 2_191557_320000000.png regards, Martin. posted: 20 Sep 2010 00:13 from: ...