1. With as much usage as that picnic table apparently gets there would not be grass immediately around it. Perhaps under the benches but not around it. Nor directly under it as the grass doesn't get enough sun. Probably should also be a "beaten" path to it. Very good point and one that I missed completely!
2. How about a path where people cut across the tracks and up the edge to this place from the foreground. Great idea! Done!
3. Glossy clothing on the people and too "solid" in color. Yep, agreed. I am also turning the picnic table around so only their backs will be visible. I also painted the guy's shirt a different color, more in keeping with 1925 (year the layout represents). Also may help with #11.
4. Is it desirous to be able to see "through" the upstairs of the building? Probably not... LOL That can be easily corrected with a slightly different camera angle.
5. In the first photo it looks like there is an edge of an isle or fascia with a control panel corner showing directly over the people's heads. You got it! That is exactly what it is. I will eliminate that in the photo by blocking it with a couple cars and the caboose on the tracks behind the building.
6. Just off to the right of the building it looks like there are some unfinished rocks or something in the background, "white plaster" perhaps? Unfinished part of layout.... [(edit) Actually that is the quarry on the layout. It also needs to be darkened a bit.] Will use a camera angle and crop so it doesn't appear in the photos.
7. In the 2nd photo there is a band of blue through the background. Looks like sky with a band of trees over it. LOL... Yep! That is Seneca Lake painted on the backdrop on the other side of the layout about 10 foot away. BTW the color is correct. Seneca Lake is over 800' deep in places and perfectly reflects the blue sky. It is an amazing color in real life. I hadn't noticed the blue strip and will use an angle where it doesn't show. Thanks!
8. Why would the plants up around the building be so pale and dry looking while everything else is so jungle green? With the model-T, I presume it is long before the days of Round-up Weed killer. Very good point! I will be greening it up a bit. Although since it is late summer on the layout, some brown grass would be normal, but not as much as i have there. Again, 1925...
9. tree stumps on the far right look too sideways and too close together considering their diameter. Some of that is camera angle, but I will be adding more greenery right around the stumps to help that effect. Good point!
10. Not a dandelion, thistle, sweet clover, or any other sort of weed flower anywhere? I added some flower foam I have. I'll see if that helps.
And I guess finally the real issue if there is one 11. If the model-T is indicative of the age, the clothing doesn't look like the right style. See #3. Hard to find appropriate dressed everyday wear for 1925. Most of the people I have found are in very dressy clothing (What they would wear to Church or while riding trains, etc). I may move the Model T truck over to the back of the building by the large rock at the end of the road to take away the clash of styles a bit...