Nice work @Dave R

@Rich-O-Brien Very nice texturing and render!

Bravo! Well done!

Wild. My computer would choke on all that subdivision. That said, pretty good likeness!

@Rich-O-Brien thank you! By "spindle arm" are you referring to the lead screw that drives the moving anvil?

@tuna1957 said in Just moved in (Render): @L-i-am Excellent job. Only critique is the brightness of the garage space seems to take away from the more somber overall look of the render…. Take it for what it’s worth….. Everybody sees and interprets renders differently. Still all in all a great job. Hi Tuna, with all respect to your comment the lighting was central to the intent of the image, ying and yang, light and shade

@Mike-Amos Nice work mate

@Bryan-K Ta mate, replacing lost component library means I can rethink stuff too/

Top notch as always!

I think I actually have this compass, its in one of my draws of stuff that I'm still sorting through.

Top notch as always! Well done!

@majid !!! Nice to see you here. Thanks for the compliment!

@L-i-am Appreciated mate, thanks. I know of developments when I was looking which included a simple arm on a low friction bar at the tope of the unit, sorry but I cannot find pictures, it was thirty years ago though. I did this for giggle and kicks, no doubt if I were seriuous about it I would look up knew (Pun intended) methods. In short, you are correct. Keeping the orientation of the 'needle' will be difficuilt even in the example you posted. Thanks mate, I appreciate you taking the time.

@L-i-am said in new use for an old building: why you think it is a Science not an Art I think the end result is art. But the setup is science. Understanding material properties, lighting properties and even the render engine itself is science. Especially if the end goal is photo realism. You need to know about lenses, turbidity, rayleigh etc to fully get astounding results. When you get to the point where you are looking up how to get the N and K values from a IOR and convert that to RGB values its fair to say that's not artistic. The result of your attention to detail is artistic but also physically correct.

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