"Professional Grade"--GM dealership shop dio, finished

I like it! I feel bad for the guy with the fries though! You captured the feeling in a garage pretty well. I would say one thing-the garage is awful clean! You might want to add a "Grand Opening" banner in there somewhere.

As for getting your figures more realistic, you can use washes and drybrushing! Washes can put darker color in recessed areas, and drybrushing can put highlights on the raised details. With a little practice I'm sure you can make your figures 100% better

        Yeah, my skills with highlighting and shading are pretty much nil.  I did drybrush some grease on their arms, and their eyes came out pretty good, but unfortunately all the figures are hunched, so the eyes and face features are hard to see.    I need to get some reading material on how to do figures better, I think.

The "stuff" in the dio looks really good.

Maybe it's because car guys don't really do all that much shading and highlightting, but whenever there's a figure with a car, the figure has all the life of a department store mannequin. The figures are technically well painted, nice straigh lines, no brush marks, etc. but there isn't the life one expects in a well painted figire.

While I am not an automotive guy by any stretch of the imagination (armor mostly), I have to admit, that is a very nice diorama!  Good job.

Russ

Great work!

It reminds me of a job I had once as a service porter.  They wouldn't let me drive the Corvettes.  Great work

Semper Fi,

Chris

I'm a Chevy/GMC kinda guy that doesn't have to Fix Or Repair Daily (FORD) but, that green tool box needs some fingerprints on it. Coffee stains, too. Very nice.