Thank you! :)

I really don't think I'm a patch on HW. He hand drew all his symbols, and mine are about 50% modelled in 3D apps like Blender and ngPlant.

I will be moving on to Structures in the next couple of days. Have to keep the pace steady and do what's on the list, or things get unbalanced ;)

I'm not so sure it really needed very much, but that's a matter of personal taste ;)

I think, for the style you seem to be aiming to achieve, the forests are fine.

Speaking of structures, I totally forgot the trade ship. I've lived all my life on the coast and even sailed across the Channel on a couple of occasions, but I haven't ever managed to get the curves of a boat right in a drawing. So here I am using original ship plans from this site http://www.shipmodell.com/index_files/0PLAN1A.html#5S (its just a bit tricky downloading them, which is why I haven't suggested it as a general resource) to construct the crude shape of a Portuguese carrack "Nau del Cantabrico XIII". It's a medieval trade ship with one square sail. Something nice and easy to start with. That was the thinking behind my choice anyway - that and the fact it has one simple squarish sail that will make it instantly identifiable as a ship, rather than an exotic squashed insect with white wings.

A bit much for just one vessel in an overland annual style? Maybe, but I can easily build up a set of these things now I've worked out how to do it and potentially make a whole fleet of them over the years.

And don't worry! I have no intention of making anything more than a simple outline with the deck and mast so that I can use it to guide a hand painted version. Much faster!

As for why I didn't just google "Isometric sailing ships" - I did. There wasn't a single one I could use.

If we were all artists nothing would ever get done. We might imagine things...

Leonardo da Vinci's second flying machine drawing - 1485

But we can't design the reality and build them like the mathematicians, engineers and scientists can.

Igor Sikorsky with his working helicopter -1933

So this modern world we know only exists because we all have different talents - none of which would have been much good without all the others.