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    tadema
    last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 15:23

    Well it was....

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      boofredlay
      last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 16:39

      Nice!

      http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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        hellnbak
        last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 18:11

        Very nice! ๐Ÿ‘ Maybe a little variation in the curtains used? Maybe a few trashcans, some litter along the curb? Graffiti? ๐Ÿ˜†

        Was this based on an actual location, or strictly your imagination?

        "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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          solo
          last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 18:37

          Great stuff.

          Yeah why not add the drunk returning from pub and a broken Ford Escort. ๐Ÿ’š

          http://www.solos-art.com

          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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            boofredlay
            last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 18:56

            @solo said:

            Great stuff.

            Yeah why not add the drunk returning from pub and a broken Ford Escort. ๐Ÿ’š

            Pete wants to be in your renderings John. Consider it an honor.

            http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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              hellnbak
              last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 18:59

              @unknownuser said:

              @solo said:

              Great stuff.

              Yeah why not add the drunk returning from pub and a broken Ford Escort. ๐Ÿ’š

              Pete wants to be in your renderings John. Consider it an honor.

              ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ

              "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                solo
                last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 19:00

                lol, I'd be the drunk peeing on wall.

                http://www.solos-art.com

                If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                  mitcorb
                  last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 19:03

                  Another excellent effort!

                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                    hellnbak
                    last edited by 7 Jan 2012, 19:06

                    @solo said:

                    lol, I'd be the drunk peeing on wall.

                    So maybe this would qualify as the graffiti ๐Ÿ˜„

                    "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                      tadema
                      last edited by 8 Jan 2012, 10:15

                      Thank you.
                      Somehow I cannot picture Pete staggering home, singing loudly and peeing all over but you never know ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
                      Steve, the curtains had different coloured textures applied, maybe the colours were too similar. These houses, built in the thousands are a kind of starter home / working class property. Terrace houses, 2 up 2 down, outside toilet, no running hot water, coal fire, no insulation, single glazed 6mm windows.....told you it was grim up north.
                      John

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                        hellnbak
                        last edited by 8 Jan 2012, 10:27

                        @tadema said:

                        outside toilet, no running hot water, coal fire, no insulation, single glazed 6mm windows.....told you it was grim up north.
                        John

                        Grim? That's downright medieval! Can I assume they have been updated, at least brought the toilet inside? When I was very young we lived in a house out in the country with an "outhouse" (complete with the good old Sears catalog) ๐Ÿ˜† . This was in Ohio, and during the Winter you really learned a new level of self-control.

                        "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                          tadema
                          last edited by 8 Jan 2012, 17:31

                          Hello Steve,

                          In architecture and city planning, a terrace(d) house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse (though the last term can also refer to patio houses) is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace, and is often larger than those houses in the middle.

                          The terrace house has housed different parts of the social spectrum in western society. Originally associated with the working class, in modern times, historical and reproduction terraces have been widely associated with the process of gentrification.[1]

                          Terrace housing can be found throughout the world, though is in abundance in parts of Europe and extensive examples can be found in some cities in North America and Oceania.
                          Wikipedia

                          I was born and bred in an identical house, the terrace streets had a great community spirit. Around thirty years ago these houses were much sought after as starter homes, most fully modernized and true "little palaces". Following a housing collapse the value dropped to as little as ยฃ13,000 each, the property developers soon stepped in to buy them up.
                          Housing benefit was introduced by Government allowing unemployed or low income families to become tenants and the rent was paid by the tax payer (a no lose situation for the developers).
                          This seems to have led to the decline of the terrace streets. They are now being purchased for top dollar to be demolished and replaced by Eco-efficient housing.
                          John

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                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by 8 Jan 2012, 17:38

                            @unknownuser said:

                            'Hope... brought the toilet inside...'
                            ๐Ÿ˜’
                            When I was a lad [rural UK] they improved my grandmother's terraced house by building an outside toilet! Previously we used an earth-closet at the far-end of a long garden [plank with a hole for the seat and a galvanized steel bucket], the contents of which got put into a new pit in the vegetable patch every few weeks... By comparison my parents had an inside toilet connected into a cesspit, that was pumped out by a special lorry every quarter...
                            Civilization - I love it ! ๐Ÿค“

                            TIG

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                              Daniel
                              last edited by 10 Jan 2012, 20:57

                              Another great model
                              I think the criticism on the curtains wasn't so much about the texturing, but the fact that all the windows have the same kind of curtains, in the same position. Have some closed, some more open, throw in some blinds...

                              My avatar is an anachronism.

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                                Mike Amos
                                last edited by 11 Jan 2012, 10:00

                                I grew up in Battersea (south London) in just such a house, loads of characters and a very friendly community. Nobody had a pot so there was no jealousy of who had what or not unlike now.

                                In the 90's most of the terraces were torn down and replaced with multi storey housing which lost the gardens for slabs of concrete and potted trees which made the place feel very cold and soul less, losing its identity. I went back to the house I lived in then as a few at the end of the street were left ( I am informed the money ran out) and although they had put new tiles on the roof they left the original structure which meant the roof sagged at the back, it was a bit pathetic really.

                                The original boundry between these back to back terraces was an open sewer and when I was a kid this evident by a dip in the ground level where the boundry wall/fence was, a link with the 17th and 18th century housing boundry location. The school at the top of our street was built over one of the rivers turned into a closed sewer during the big push to cleanse the city and was named after the river, Latchmere school. Yep, despite living over the road from school, I was sometimes late. John, I might have to emulate you as this series has givien me the urge to model these streets as I remember them. Thanks for that. ๐Ÿ˜†

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