Thanks everybody. Wasn't expecting this response.

Here's some more. Might not be a WIP by now.

This is the New House from WIP. Finished I guess. This could go on forever.

My trains folder is almost 81 gb!

My UP truck is too shiny. Good enough for who it's for.

Ant Chair I started modeling in 2010 with information from "Republic of Fritz Hansen" which is a Series 7 Ant Chair that was designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1955. The seat itself was tweaked with Artisan and the UV mapping was done with Fredo's Thrupaint. Textured in D5 Render. I created a solid color model and wood grain model and adjusted the materials as required. If you make the asset "unique" in D5 you can apply different materials or colors to the seat.

Different brick, wood, gutter and Corten roofing.

Started this yesterday. Nothing too complicated. Based on a golden spiral floor plan shape and went up from there. I laid out the site plan in Autocad.

Sketchup AI turned it into Waterworld.

Trail.

Some sketches.

Trying out different icicles.

This is using icicles geometry nodes by Ander Goico which I generated with the help of Construction Lines (which is like a CAD addon for Blender) by Don Norris. I added lines alongside the trim, fascia, under gutters, etc and converted those to curves and then added the icicle geometry node to each line. Then I synced it to D5 Render from Blender. The Bronco is another Blenderkit vehicle. These icicles are more random. It's a little tedious but that's a given.

Trying some more things.

@Gus-R

Meanwhile on the reverse side.

Spinning my wheels with all this professionally. All spent with Upwork which hasn't gone anywhere. Over 30 "proposals" and not a single job from Upwork and you have to pay for those proposals.

Making a few bucks off some work from Facebook. People don't even want to spend what I used to charge in the late 2000's. I have a couple of regular clients in the real world.

Oh well. At least I can still make pretty pictures.

Dave,

If you or anyone else is looking for some mechanical drawing type work with Sketchup the Canadian Pacific Historical Association is a good source. You have to register and search. It's free though I should probably donate to them having used a lot of their materials.

They even have some old railroad structures and buildings.

CPHA: Documents Library Search

CPHA: Canadian Pacific Historical Association

(www.cptracks.ca)

Last model and rendering for 2024. Worked on the model for the past two days in between watching paint dry. Did the rendering on the fly. Send any complaints to Rich O'Brien.

Happy New Year for those that celebrate except New Zealanders.

Here's another one with some mods in the rain and add some bulge to the lawn for those that celebrate.

Experimenting with some night time HDR.

This one is also work related.

Inspired by Mike Amos's "Singer developed 911." post I picked up this 1967 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale from Wire Wheels Club for around 10 USD. It's an amazing model. I keep putting off modeling a car.

This could be a great asset for renders. I rendered these in D5 Render. You get a Blender, FBX, Max and Obj file. I didn't try importing this into Sketchup. I imported it into D5 from Blender and all the material imported without a glitch.

The creator of the model is Luis Lara Osorio,

Hold the phone! Change in plans. He decided to nix the overhangs fire protection since embers end up there and start fires. Also increased the roof pitch. The floor plan stays the same. I left the windows and door in place except for the new entry design. I know some people prefer the 50s ranch look but what the client wants the client gets.

A few houses in the general neighborhood area survived but the rest is burned down and almost looks flattened. A lot of the old house had those wide overhangs. Some with exposed rafter tails. A fire rated soffit board could help. Roof vents are another access point for embers. I assume we'll be seeing a lot of houses being rebuilt without overhangs.

He also said he wasn't an Alfa-Romeo guy.