Miggy, thanks for your kind words... Trust me there are no "Superpowers" here, just perseverance and a bunch of time looking & reading on this forum as well as watching a ton of YouTube videos on scenery. Can't speak for anyone else, but it took me decades of trying to create scenery with many, many disappointments & failures.
So don't get discouraged, I think the only way to get there is to continue to try new techniques, do it over and over and over again and then one day you're pleasantly surprised with the result. The other thing I have come to accept, is there aren't too many short cuts that provide really pleasing results on most projects. Now that I have accepted that it's going to be a multi-step process and it's going to take longer than I would have originally liked, it's worth the time to be patient, (very hard for me)... go through all the steps and then move on to the next project.
Here's some shots of some of the other scenery on this layout. I may have posted some of these shots before, but I tend to learn as much from looking at other member's layout photos, as reading long sets of instructions on how to do it.
Mike G - , nice job there, but I think you're eating too many chips !