A guy was able to call this project done early last week, but we had overcast skies and some rain, so I waited, and yesterday was pretty clear and good for taking some final photos. So, yesterday, amped on coffee, I spent a long time dealing with photos, and this is how it all worked out, please have a look:
I think worth the wait. It’s funny how after years of taking outdoor pictures of models, and dealing with ridiculously dense and out of scale backgrounds, it finally occurred to me to use the parking lot across the street - it’s screened from view by landscaping, but once past that, it’s flat and relatively unobstructed, so good for taking pictures of models.
Each photo is cut out, meaning, you go through and crop out what you don’t want to see (like out of scale or context background stuff) and then superimpose the cut out photo over more desirable background pictures. Nothing about the original picture color, brightness etc is changed. While a bit slow going, well, if a project takes months to build, taking some time to take and set up photos is well worth the effort, and I’ve come to enjoy doing it.
To quote the great Marty DeBergi, “enough of my yappin” and on to some more photos:
It seems there’s a guy with a tricked out Baja bug at every lumber yard, so there’s one here too
What a treat! all this 4x4 action right on Main Street! 
I left a note for Jerry @JRutman on his current build noting how he manages to get color and texture on his figures with no shine - me and these two are envious of that!
The background for this pic is a lumber yard about a mile from me, but unhappily, the pictures are south facing - so this is what we get, glare etc - there you go. But, the foreman, on the upper deck has very little if any shine, so that’s good!
Thinking about a comment Tim @Dioramartin made about building dios and thinking about photos. During this build I seriously wondered about the value of making highly detailed interiors, which once done will be hard if not impossible to see - a bit like making a MiniArt T-55 with interiors - I build them compulsively, and yet, once buttoned up, never to be seen again! So, we have a stocked hardware store and workshop, but they are not easy to see - at all!
I realized this during the build and took a variety of steps to make them more visible, with moderate success. In the end, like making a T-55 interior, I did it; I just like making them, visible or not!
And here we are - time to call this done, and to move on to something else -
Thanks for having a look
Cheers
Nick 
but, that’s going to be just the way it goes 
I can’t think of a higher compliment. Oh and that tree – a few 1:35 lemons hanging off it maybe?
, meanwhile apropos your notes;
