with my daughter in school she doesn't work on it to much she painted the mnt since I did the layout the wife talked me into not finishing it for her and letting her do it and that has been a slow process since she is in school. you have to kind of know my daughter she is 18 and plays with trains but that is because she has Cerebral Palsy. so for her the school work is a challenge and taking on a layout at the same time is just to much for her. she also has slight autism too. at one point she was deemed legally blind but glasses have help that situation. so she loves the train set but she is they type of kid that I bought her a doll when she was 6 and it is still in the box never opened and she has many like that so the train layout even though it isn't finished she is happy with it that way. I a few weeks ago gave her a ameri town building and she painted it and then I glued it for her. is it perfect no but she did it and is happy with it and it is on her layout. with her issues she can't stand very well so she has knocked over her trees and her little tank thing on the layout is no longer attached. but the layout works and her Hogwarts train does make an appearance on my layout every now and then. when she feels like allowing my layout to run her train (she's very protective of it ) she feels her Hogwarts graces my layout with it's presence 
so she painted the mountain and has done a few little thing but not much she knows what she wants but doesn't know how to get there and some of the stuff neither do I she wants a Hogwarts castle but I'm not a scratch builder when it comes to stuff like that so I am kind of lost 
I did find Ho plans of the Hogwarts castle in cardstock but like I said way beyond me .
here is a link to her train running.
https://www.facebook.com/video...p;type=3&theater
