A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.

Box

Now I want to see pictures of the boat as well

I don't have any recent ones, this was it when I bought it 7 years ago. It has changed a lot since then. The workshop is basically from the door on the side to the back. Kitchen between workshop and wheelhouse. Main 'Office' is in the wheelhouse because I can close it off and heat and cool it, I have four monitors in there. The workshop has 3 monitors and a design desk setup.
Upstairs, openable sundeck, which has my treadmill and 3rd workstation, only two monitors up there, I can watch TV and use PC while on the treadmill. All three sets of monitors run off the same PC via hubs so I on the same files wherever I am.
Then double bedroom and full bathroom and finally open back deck.

It is a converted Whitsundays inter island ferry, capable of 40kn+ in its heyday. Still manages mid 30s. Two 400 horse inboard turbo diesels below the waterline.

She's old but so am I and she is home.

I wake up to this.

Nod off to this.

And regularly pull these in with a simple hand line for dinner.

It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it.

ntxdave

@Box the door is beautiful and the pictures of the boat are neat as well.

pixelcruncher

@Box Thanks for sharing those pictures. It must be a hard life for sure I assume this is somewhere in Australia based on the Whitsundays reference.

mrossk

Really beautiful, thanks for sharing. Particularly striking when backlit!

Mike Amos

@Box
Magic, the 'boat' looks like a great place to be.

The door etc well, mind blown in a good way. Thanks for showing it here, it improves my day seeing this sort of thing.

Box

@pixelcruncher said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:

I assume this is somewhere in Australia

About an hour north of Sydney at the mouth of the Hawkesbury River.

Bryan K

Lovely and impressive work.

rv1974

The initial BW charcoal looks the best

L i am

You have a workshop, on a boat, in subtropical Australia, designing and crafting lead lights I HATE YOU

Rich O Brien

@rv1974 said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:

The initial BW charcoal looks the best

In your opinion....

rv1974

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rv1974

@Rich-O-Brien no its my grandma's opinion.

baz

Love the glasswork, beautiful.

Box

Just thought I would throw a few recent jobs into this old thread for the few people that might be interested.

Rich O Brien

@Box Thanks for sharing that. Seriously talented stuff.

Mike Amos

@Box

Wow.

It may be getting on in the day but it is seriously better for seeing those. Thanks mate.

Box

I was digging through some boxes of old stuff the other day and found quite a lot of predigital photos of some of my work from the last century.
This one in particular would have been so much simpler to design if sketchup had been available then. This was early 90s, pre computer in today's sense. From memory over 900 individual hand cut pieces of glass, each one angled by a few degrees to create a wave effect. And each had a fibre optic filament leading back in sequence to several light projectors running hand made glass colour wheels to create an undulating colour shifting northern lights effect through the glass.
The only part that was in any way computer generated was the three 20mm thick pieces of glass that made up the central viking prow. I hand drew the shape I wanted on a large piece of paper and sent it off to a company in Scotland that had a fancy new water jet that could cut glass. They scanned my drawing so the computer could cut it. I still had to hand finish them as the water jet wasn’t a clean cut.
And you tell the young people of today this and they don’t believe you.

Viking ship.jpg