Not me, the Gaugemaster "Pretty English Town" backscene, which just happens to depict the town where I live. Each of the three sheets is 12 inches high, whereas the space I need it to fit in (between the top and bottom side and end members) is about 8⅛ inches. Rather than simply cut 3⅞ inches off the bottom of the sheet, which would "lose" rather a lot of the town scene, I took off about ¾" off the top first (much more and the church steeple would hit the top member and divide the sky in two) then removed the remainder from the bottom. I then tried the trimmed backscene sheet in place, and put the layout in the box to see how things looked. I've also trimmed part of the left hand sheet to continue on from the town sheet and go round the corner to cover the other end of the box.
So, what does it look like?
Like this, is the answer:
I'm quite pleased with it so far.
The church is St. Mary's, the large building in front of it is the Royal Hotel, which does a nice pint of Butty Bach. Off to the left is Penyard Hill, with much of the town of Ross-on-Wye in the foreground. Our house is behind the church, less than 10 minutes walk from the Royal. Think I'll head off for a pint in a bit...
PS: Not a great photo, but this shows the left hand section of the backscene roughly in place. There's a bit of extra length to give room for adjustment if necessary.
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