Excellent job, Arnold! You certainly had to work your way around obstacles! I think most layouts benefit with a backdrop to block out surrounding 'house' things. The exception may be a postwar layout where the owner wants to display items on the walls to heighten the flavor of old layouts from days gone by.
I am doing something similar, but with a painted backdrop on sections of Masonite that I bought from a Forum member a few years ago. His intent was to show the Ohio River valley with the hills above. I won't have room above track level for the whole 4-foot high sections, so I will be able to cut off portions to fit. I won't be using the river portion, and will be using the sections in a different order than he did. Here is a photograph shortly after I brought them home.
Here are two sections that I did have cut and lined up for the mountains to match. I slid one over the other to start moving things and cleaning up the mess before starting benchwork on the next wall. It is tight quarters building an O gauge layout in an 11x11 room. The other sections are leaning against the wall protected from scratching.
