I've been working on my humans a great deal lately and still find out new ways to do stuff, so luckily they do get better. In the older days when commissioned to do something involving humans (or animals) I tried to pursuede them to have a distant shot
No issue anymore.
The construction is a medieval drainage 'pipe', which was somehow used to dry the polder behind it (though I would have expected some kind of windmill at the other end). At front is the sea. But here the embankment is being opened to flood the polder (against some enemy in some war, I have the details somewhere). So citizens are being forced by the army to do the digging. Army still to be made....
Will you be adding any human(s) to your scene, btw? It would really lively it up.
Oh, and here's an update on the first one. Very low res.
And the second setting I need to make.