Lancashire type steam boilers

shawb

The brickwork texture (and a number of others) are from the Sketchup Texture Club. The membership fee of Euro 12 per year is well worth it. Other textures are from SU Podium Browser - my render engine plus a few of my own making.

Bryan K

Excellent model and renders!

liam887

Wow really good, I would add some heat blur on those open doors and maybe a glow on the floor/wall just outside them. Those stone and brick textures are top notch!

shawb

Thank you both for the much appreciated praise and comments. It may just tempt me to try another post at some point down the line.

tadema

Welcome to the forum and great first post

John

shawb

Thanks John, love the frog!

Mike Amos

Nicely done, the actual feeder p-lated to feed 'coal' into the boilers appear to all be open, unlikely in real life but otherwise, nice renders.

shawb

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your comments. The semi-circular lower doors provide access for removal of ash which will have fallen through the grate which spans the widest part of the fire tube. These doors would also regulate the combustion air. I agree that they would not all have been open to the same angle - I should have taken them out of the component to show variation on each of them. Fresh coal is fired through the much smaller fire door in the upper semi-circle and these would be kept closed except when firing.

L i am

Hi shawb, really nice work mate Only constructive comment I would make is modifying the colour temperature of the lighting. The contemporary lighting source of that era would have been incandescent, so would be a lot warmer

shawb

Thanks for that tip L i am - its something that I should have twigged to!

Nemesis

Very cool! I like industrial thematic, but where is heat insulation ?

shawb

Hi Nemesis, I debated with myself, long and hard, about lagging the pipes and valves but decided to model the said pipes and valves as a bit more interesting/challenging and have them 'on show'. Not correct I know. I operated steam plant for a number of years and would be the first to appreciate the skill of the industrial lagging specialists so it was a toss up between the two options.

tuna1957

very nice

L i am

Any render updates?

shawb

Haven't managed to update yet (got side-tracked, which is easy with SU) but will do so soon!

shawb

Once again, thank you all for the comments and observations. I have had a go at addressing some of these and the attached images are the result. Still a long way to go but the process is always interesting! In particular, I tried to adjust the lighting to better reflect the historical period, as suggested by L i am. Initially I added a dash of yellow to the pendant lights but this looked terrible! I looked on-line for RGB values for incandescent light and there is plenty of information available for all kinds of different light sources. Incandescent appears to be more orange and that is where I started from. (RGB = 255,197,41 for a 40w lamp)

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