Old kitchen - WIP
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I'll hold you to that Bruce. Ceramic would be quite appropriate for the baked enamel colours with lots of nickle/chrome trim or what the restorer calls 'jewellery'. Though very bright and shiny when new, it dulls over time - unless you establish a monthly polishing regime. The top is black cast iron with a slight sheen.
There is a bit of a dilemma here in that I'm trying to avoid over restoration so that surfaces retain what I term 'the patina of time' and don't look as if they are brand new. It helps keep the cozy feeling you mentioned and a reassuring sense of times past.
Thanks again for your help.
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Bernard, check out this thread (especially this page) if you haven't already:
and you will surely hold Bruce (modelhead) to his offer...I look forward to what he and the others do with it myself!
Best, Tom.
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I'd swap that kitchen any day for mine. Looks very nice.
Just that clock... with the pendulum straight down it looks like it's not ticking. Please hang it in any other position so we can see it swing and hear its ticking.[maggy]
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Sorry Tom - just another 'senior moment' - one amongst many. Will edit and then check out the link.
Maggy - of course you would, that's why you have yours and I have mine.
You will have to wait for me to master gif animation to share the visual manifestation of the tick-tock I hear behind me. Content yourself with knowing that the pendulum is sometimes in that position when I forget to wind it.
As I said, this is a work in progress - among other things I have to model something I can plug the mantle radio into.
I'll get there - one day.
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Bernard, I didn't mean a real animation, just a little adaptation to reduce the static impression.
Lets compare it to something very dynamic: a football match (soccer for US). The striker swings one left back to kick the ball into the goal. Camera's clicking around him. At a certain point in his motion it's possible that his body is straight upright, with both legs straight down and possibly even both arms straight down. Would any reporter send in such a picture? Would any newspaper publish it?
Every striker has to pass this position somewhere in the swing of his kick. Just like your clock passes this position every second.
Actually lots of SU drawings have this same static impression, no wind in the trees, all cars perfectly aligned and so on.[maggy]
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Maggy - Just put it down to my laziness.
The image I used to build the clock had the pendulum in this 'neat and tidy' position as did all the others I looked at as possibilities for the model - no doubt signs of anal retentive personalities?
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You know Bernard, I am getting quite a few of the 'senior moments' to.
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I didn't know the term anal retentive, so I looked it up in Wikipedia:
@unknownuser said:
The term is often used to describe a person deemed to be overly obsessed with minor details.
Hanging a pendulum where gravity hangs it in a clock that isn't ticking does sound lazy to me, but quite the contrary of anal retentive. Perhaps my obsession with such details might be called anal retentive?
[maggy]
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Maggy
Takes one to know one!
But in knowing, I have moments when, apparently like you, I must deliberately go against type and do something provocatively un-anal [if there is such a word]. Are 'creative' and 'expressive' synonyms?
Alas, editing the pendulum was not one of them.
I suspect we are not alone here!
Ron - It's a worry.
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Bernard,
Beautiful work, especially in the props. Can I ask though- it looks like a straight SU render? If so I'll move this thread across to the SketchUp Gallery.
Jackson
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Jackson - Thanks. Feel free - I thought it was an SU "render", that's why I put it here.
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Barnard, there is a difference in the Renders/Rendering and the SketchUp within the Gallery. The SketchUp is for native SU output. The other is for renderings created by 3rd party programs like Maxwell etc...
I will go ahead and move it and leave a shadow for a bit.
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Eric - I gathered that when I read Jackson's post. I was just explaining why I posted it here.
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