Lancashire type steam boilers

[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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[Bryan K]

Looks good. I think the new light temperature is perfect.

[shawb]

Thank you Bryan, much appreciated! I am thinking of trying a railway themed model next.

[L i am]

@bryan k said:

Looks good. I think the new light temperature is perfect.

Agreed! much more convincing

[Daniel]

fantastic work, Shawb.

[shawb]

Thank you Daniel and a belated Happy New Year to all!