Building the scene

To save time I used the elm tree from the application library. A start and finish post were made up using 2 cylinders each and a plane stretched across them with the word START and FINISH applied as a diffuse material bitmap, although this did create the problem of the not being able to see the sign from the back. However with careful placement of the camera this should not cause any difficuties.

Reference image of which a section of the path was used for to create the path texture.