Ok I got up this morning, made the coffee and looked at last nights work and thought I just cant let that stand, yuck ! After a little research I found that the cottage is still standing and theres a few photo's of it making modeling it much easier. Here's a higher resolution version, still a bit squared off but I think it will do for the time being. I use Lightwave for modeling, have done since version 5, but I'm hopeless at organic modeling so I'll be off to Poser for the farmers, horses and other farmyard fauna. Distant trees will be from the usual suspects, xfrog freebies, turbosquid and our own ever expanding resources. In the original painting theres only 3 "hero" trees and these will be modeled directly in Lightwave.
Thanks for the offer Will but I'll decline, I really want to push myself on this one, do as much as possible my self. Harvy I will be using your model but you may not recognise it by the time I'm finished with it lol
Richard
ps. Ivy from the wonderful Ivy Generator, google it, its great!