The Lodge House
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A small lodge
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Another great model and render...
You should do a tutorial on how you do this...
Do you work from photos with PhotMatch or 'by eye' using reference photos etc ??Incidentally, my house is also called 'The Lodge', and it did use to serve that purpose - BUT it's no where as nice as the name suggests compared to your one... Ours was built in the 60s by the Government's PSA as a caretaker's 'lodge' to the Milk-Marketing-Board HQ Offices, that had just been made from an attractive large Victorian stone built Rectory next to the local parish church [the C of E had just built an ugly pair of boxy semis next to the fine Georgian church
], then in the 80s the MMB sold the main building and it was knocked down [it'd have been spot-listed now!] and then a block of [relatively pleasant] flats was built on the plot. They left our 60s lodge and the Victorian coach-house on the other side of the site and sold those separately... Eventually we bought it and 'did it up' [actually we're still doing it up!!]. Where I live there are very few detached houses [Georgian/Victorian terraces and few-Edwardian/30s semis]. The downside of our house's 'style' [we ARE slowly 'improving' it - but 'putting lipstick on a pig' springs to mind!] is balanced by it being well detached and it having a nice private [stone-]walled back-garden surrounded by fine mature trees [all TPOd!]... which in turn led to the Building-Inspector requiring 2m deep foundations for a single-storey extension, unless it was rafted, which then reduced to 1m [450mm r.c. edge-beam + 650mm stone below, which I had to calculate to get permissions - groan... 
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James, thank you. Your comments are always welcome.
TIG, thank you also. These are all modelled "by eye" from pictures I find on the web, the hardest part is finding something to draw. Iāve made a Tutorial thatās on James site but Iām not sure if Iām allowed to link it here. The old buildings have character and I love craftsmanship that went into constructing them, unlike the modern boxesof today; todayās tradesmen (I use the word lightly) couldnāt hold a candle to the old boys! It seems there all chasing the money now and no longer have any pride in their work.
Regards John -
you have a great eye for the small details that make a rendering look real.
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Kristoff, thank you, It's the small details that count but it's hard to know what not to draw or what won't be seen.
John -
@tadema said:
James, thank you. Your comments are always welcome.
TIG, thank you also. These are all modelled "by eye" from pictures I find on the web, the hardest part is finding something to draw. Iāve made a Tutorial thatās on James site but Iām not sure if Iām allowed to link it here. The old buildings have character and I love craftsmanship that went into constructing them, unlike the modern boxesof today; todayās tradesmen (I use the word lightly) couldnāt hold a candle to the old boys! It seems there all chasing the money now and no longer have any pride in their work.
Regards JohnThat's why my 60s lodge looks 'rubbish' and your lodge looks great !
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