First diorama

Nice!

I really liked the weather-beaten roof to the right and the driveway up front. This is even large enough to work as a nice RR-served industry!

Keep up with more dioramas!

I agree

The best solution is to make it all a gravel parking space.  Most importantly, the dirt is much too dark.  On the other hand, have you visited the parking lot in front of the Nantuckett Restaurant along the Carquinez Strait in Crockett, CA (immediately west of the Carquinez Bridge on Hwy 80, with the SP [now UP] mainline between the lot and the restuarant)?  It consists of earth-barely-covered-by-gravel-but-full-of-pot-holes where you risk your shoes after a rainfall.  Regardless, the dirt is basically gray, not brown.

Mark

Nice!

Joe,

Very nice work!  I don't know how "finished" it is, but I suggest that the final product contain lot's-o-clutter.  Most industries like this have a bunch of stuff sitting around the building.  Also, I can't see the building close up to see if you weathered it on the lower walls to reflect dirt & such that ends up on the lower walls.  Thanks for sharing and please keep up the great work!

Rick

Looks good

The only thing I might suggest is that front lawn might look better with some static grass applied.  It just looks a little too "flat" to me, but just a suggestion.

Ditto

Yes it looks good. The only thing is rooftop details.  The roof looks a little barren to me.  Some static grass might make the lawn look more natural too as mentioned.

But I might be rivet counting here.  It's a great scene either way!

I would agree with Mark.

A feed store would not "waste" half of the parking lot with grass and a big tree.  The tree might be there, but it would all be gravel parking lot.  I think there would also be room to park an 18 wheeler to make deliveries.

I didn't notice earlier that it is a feed mill rather than a feed store.  I think the problem for a feed mill on that diorama is that a feed mill would not deal much with people coming in a car or small pick up to buy a bag of feed.  The mills are generally big enough to make all sorts of feed and would have room for the trucks to line up for loading from silos for bulk loads as well as a loading dock to load bagged feed in trailers.  I would change the name on it to a feed store.  The building is right for a small town feed store, I may be wrong, but it just doesn't appear substantial enough to be a feed mill.  May be in the 1920's or earlier a feed mill would be that small, but I don't think it would fit in a post war situation as a mill.