I like it with that wet asphalt. The image looks great

They both look fantastic

@focpt said: Nice Work Dude! How do you get the watercolor effect?? Is that a Sketchup style? I would assume FotoSketcher or something similar. Am I right?

hey thats pretty cool ... thanks for that

Great work as usual John! Texturing on the front wall is superb.

@karinagm said: Nice stucco wall BTW Thanks Stucco bump is from here or twilight forum, can't remember where I found it , but judging after file name, it was downloaded from http://www.openfootage.net/

Truly incredible! Vicspa beat me to the question: Do you have or will you please make a basic tutorial? Because if anyone knows what they are doing, it seems to be you! Really good work.

Shall be re working some old sketch up concepts into 3Ds soon to get some crazy details. Still use sketch-up for smaller lo poly objects.

Now that`s good! Looks so realistic.

Yes, more like that here. http://www.evolo.us/category/2011/ One of mine, just playing around. [image: steampunk-bridge-2.jpg]

How much answers! I'll update first post and answer to questions later. I'll try to give you maximum information about subject. btw river is not a part of our land. So far you can explore site of housing estates. Its only in Russian, but here is links for parts: "moscow river 1" - main page for subject land interactive map master plan with the cost of marking sites photos "photonews"

Thankyou very much friends for your positive feedback! Next up is the design phase of the surrounding area keep tuned

excellent render. i think grass needs a bit of displacement.

arf ! understand till the water fall on the watermill...

Thank you gentlemen. Dale, that looks like a great resource. Looks like I'll be spending some time there.

Congrats on the design and the render. I think the planners were right - it looks better without the dormer that would have distracted from the delightful simplicity of it all. Nice to see as-built photos here. Anssi

Wow, thanks John, really, really, REALLY helpful. I'll buy you a pint if you're ever in York.

Great images and website, nice one!

super design. i can see very impresive progress of your modeling, designig and rendering skils . keep posting. nice rug .

@ben ritter said: The second model that is. What do you use for the best environmental settings to generate the real reflections? In the models the windows would be reflecting to nothing because behind the camera there is no model. It does bug me the texturing of the grass and the reflections in the windows. It seems that reproducting the natural items are more difficult than man made elements. Thanks