Posts made by Gus R

@Rich-O-Brien Palette of Gatorade from Costco. I liked a blue roof and grayish taupe more but who am I to argue. I made those light fixtures 100 years ago. I ended up doing the siding in 3D as well as the standing seam roof since the displacement in D5 is kind of weird.

A paying job! Imagine that. This is designed by a firm I've done renderings for in the past. It's typically my one contact there and the owner. This house is 4 blocks from the Panhandle shore.Comes with a golf cart garage.

@Old_Noob Do you have any examples of previous work?

@Old_Noob said in EMD SD-45 Union Pacific Update:

@Gus-R T Thanks for the reply.
This will be a powered Gauge one model to run on G scale track.
I have a little Bambu Mini printer and was hoping to try to print a modified bogie frame in parts to go a round a custom motor block.
Let me know if you sell your models . i would be happy to purchase from the the vender you chose.. i was thinking of making a set out of brass but that might be pushing my skillset beyond what im capable of.

I requested a quote from a 3D printing firm and he said:

"The model comes with a lot of small thin and fragile parts. It will be risky to print this as one piece."

Might not work for something that you're looking for.

You can look around on CGTrader. There's a very similar model here and here.

Don't forget to not only search for "truck" but also try "bogie."

@Old_Noob said in EMD SD-45 Union Pacific Update:

@Rich-O-Brien
Beautiful work!
i am trying to make a 1:32 Sd18 that uses the Flexicoil three axle bogie as shown in your illustration. Would you be willing to sell me the file for the bogie so i could 3d print a couple for my project?
Regards

I don't know if I'd want to release the truck model. I may be able to provide a 3D printer service with an stl. I'm still mulling over selling the model to somewhere like CGTrader.

What are you looking to do? A static model or an operable model train?

Are you able to model one yourself? I can point you to the plans I used to develop this model from the The Norfolk and Western Historical Society.

You could try making me an offer I can't refuse.

@Bryan-K Thanks Bryan. I post this stuff at the D5 "community" forum and barely get any likes and the occasional "suggestions" from the peanut gallery.

@Gus-R

OK, I mowed the lawn and tidied up the landscaping. I'm starting to like these old house. The new glass boxes have become cliche and boring look more like a commercial building than an actual residence.

@Rich-O-Brien I forgot the window planters! Thanks Rich. I like the dramatic "through the woods" and dark contrasts look. Flying around the model like Flight Simulator can lead to interesting results. Here's the window planters...

I guess it's finished.

@Mike-Amos Thanks Bryan and Mike. This one is one of my favorite.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Piano with Rayscaper:

@pixelcruncher Just some cranky guy that makes very detailed models and yummy renders

https://www.instagram.com/gusrobatto/

Me? Cranky?

@Rich-O-Brien

This one is from "Central's Book of Homes" from Central Lumber Company which I got from Internet Archive which is still down. I saved five of them in PDF form before Internet Archive ran into trouble.

@Rich-O-Brien

Rich,

Where is this famous Robatto Piano render?

Edit: wait a minute. I just noticed my name on the piano. I'm getting old!

Killing time this morning and modeled this from since the early morning hours. Needs some window trim. I did some slight modifications keeping with the era which is around 1921.

@Rich-O-Brien Very nice. I've been using that tile pattern a lot lately to set up some UV's in Sketchup for D5 Render. Have you watched the documentary "The Making of a Steinway Piano" yet?

This is almost becoming a series of mine. Design is from 1921.

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.

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. Thought you could just auto align using the face. I've been doing it with the edge or vertex one by one. Unless I'm still mistaken. Whatever the case I'm getting it to work even with importing a skp file into Blender. Then exporting a dae file back into Sketchup. Recently I was able to try sculpting a landscape in Blender and importing (sync) into D5 Render. I guess I'm slowly learning how to use Blender. Blender really does need a dimension input like Sketchup, Autocad, and Rhino. Like a command line. Blender still can do almost everything from animation to 2D art.

@Gus-R I can't auto align by face. Just by aligning each edge. If I auto align it converges into one line on a vertical axis.

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. I knew about creating seams in Blender and right after I posted the above I saw about aligning faces and aligning with active face. Like everything I'll need to practice.