Inlet help

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1. softening the corners and not having your pond square

2. Please some rocks around the edges for a nice transition of land to water

3. A small dock with a few people and a boat tied to it

Depending on what your modeling, Lake, Ocean, or large river inlet? It could very well be squared if man-made on all 3. Suggestion of a dock is very good idea, also add pilings all around. On the Inter-Coastal, Indian River, there are many of these bridges and man-made inlets for either commercial or dockage for overnight boaters. Boats fro 12' to 100' ++  feet. At the present size a small dock with fuel pump and dockmaster shack, pilings around edges, and a small boat or 2 would look great.

Rectangular so is man-made. What is going to be located around it that can account for its behind dredged? I had had a customer with a similar area who was involved in the grain business with all that entailed and also did dredging work for his city. 

Piling around the edges as well as in the water to moor to. Lots of stuff on shore around the edges. Office, sheds, grain bins, scales, vehicles. It can be a busy place.

There was another similar place where a contractor had his yard with stone, etc delivered by barge. Lots of stuff there.

I might dirty the water a bit as these kinds of businesses are not the cleanest. You could easily have some of the shore as a marshy area with plants, mud, etc and a clear delineation where the water had been dredged For the docks, etc.

Yes going for the whole concrete dock inlet concrete walls so maybe some piling sin the corners and think I will do some piling son top with a rope border maybe. I am going to figure this out.

Your use of the world "inlet" got you the replies above about softening the edges, etc.  It implies you want a small natural area, etc.  

However, when I look at the scene without letting that word influence my thinking, what I see says "industrial" to me.  That is one honking big bridge going right over that inlet" - not the type of thing you see near a sleepy little inlet with a few rowboats pulling up of a sandy edge, etc., but something you would see in an industrial area.  

The water area you have to work with is square, as if a three-sided pier for unloading cargo, etc.  So why not make it a light industrial area?  Finish off the three sides as if concrete or heavy timber surface and make it a place to unload barges or something else low (the b ridge is low, otherwise something higher).  Make the small building a cargo company office, etc.  Put a few more boxes and pallets about, maybe a forklift of two and some cargo trucks, etc.  Perhaps even build a barge to go in that nice looking water.  This gives you the opportunity to put it a lot of vehicles and figures working - a lot of eye candy to look at.  

That's what I would do.  

Lee that's what I want to go for industrial. My gantry crane is right there and you hit it on the nail. My wording was bad On the title. So thankyou I am working on my layout every day now trying to get scenery started. With such a small layout and no space it is difficult to figure what I want on my layout. But I am just happy I have something to see my trains run. Once again thanks for the help.