Hi, Chuck. I agree with Sharen, I think the lighting came out good. It seems most of your questions have to do with materials/textures. A few suggestions. (You may not want to play with this in your picture, rather on a plain cube) Material scale controls how large/small the material looks on a surface. The larger the material (like, 1000 x 1000), the better, as you won't have so much repeating. If you put a material on your cube (like bricks), look at the scale (at top right, the little number thing under the material preview). Fool around with the numbers; the material will get larger and smaller. This is how you scale it. You said the coach was reflecting bricks...easy fix, go into the material editor and turn down reflectivity on that particular material. If you open the materials summary at top, you can find the coach material very easily. For resources for textures and materials, go to Cool and Groovy stuff at the top of this page. Some good resource in there. Also, I go to Google and type in Free Textures or something like that. Even if the textures are smallish, you can use your 2D graphics program (like PSP or PS) to flood fill a larger canvas and make the size larger. Overall, I like the composition and look of your picture a lot, and think you've done an excellent job.

Sgiathalaich