...Hi Liam - given this really visual quality of this house, it could also be an option to aim less for a perfect rendering result (which, as we all know, often becomes an endless task) but more for a much more graphic solution? A rendering probably won't be that much better just because you invest time and sweat in superfluous banalities like a sofa, a ceiling lamp and a dog in the garden?
In my view, the quality worth emphasising here lies in the wonderful geometry, the successful combination of volumes, lines and proportions.
So how about an approach consisting of a fairly simple not too photorealistic render image, combined with SkUp graphic output, maybe any clay render + hiddenline, perhaps even sketchy with overdrawn lines + a striking graphic background etc.?

just thoughts - a beautiful work in any case

(I know - even with such an graphic approach one can burn too much time and sweat but it's much more fun than waiting to see if any renderer calculates a shadow a nuance lighter or darker here or there)

...yes absolutely! - and really worth the appreciation through your exercise here

@l i am said:

@hornoxx said:

:thumb: ja, a really a beautiful house and good view therefore!
(completely insignificant but nevertheless - this garage descent seems very ambitious to me )

Cheers Hornoxx, love your choice of "ambitious" I had a giggle

even I myself had to grin when I wrote this sentence - I had my own extraordinarily coarse motor handling with gas and clutch in mind, with the inevitable negative effects for the garage door

ja, a really a beautiful house and good view therefore!
(completely insignificant but nevertheless - this garage descent seems very ambitious to me )

... next so many others, also Render[IN] could be a plugin option for you as it has not an annual subscription model. Certainly not the fastest tool in terms of the rendering process itself, but can be grasped in a few minutes if you don't want to get lost in any too complex render software.
https://renderin.com/en/

Hi
these are probably faster to model yourself than to search, download and modify them - however, for example in the 3D Warehouse you will find a wide range of window shutters...
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?q=window shutters&searchTab=model

...beautiful furniture (thanks!) and a smart decision

@boofredlay said:

... so we may end up consuming the bottles before they get a home
...

Prima Bryan!

what a beautiful piece of work - I would recommend to replace the front trees with something less big for a better sight onto your work(?)

@dave r said:

...I'm wondering about designing a steam powered PC next.

I don't know where you get your knowledge of these enigmatically beautiful old devices - they are always and in any case so wonderful to look at an so well presented!

thank you All for your nice comments - and Rich, yes, finish that guy! Great and I have no idea how you manage to get him really so "spongy"!?!

thanks a lot Rich - I can´t wait to see your´s!

Hi All,
many many years ago I saw an empty-headed and somehow funny-annoying cheese bloc running around on TV talking incessantly stupid stuff!
Later my back then small boys explained to me that this was not a square cheese-bloc but a sponge called SpongeBob
Having already made some figures of this kind, including even Plankton from the same series, it was high time I got to work again

[SkUp 2017 Make / Shaderlight / Enscape / Photoshop (entirely made with SubD)]

@dave r said:

Front axle I-beam from around 1905...and a wheel for a rail car from around 1895
wunderbar Dave!

so cool!

Respect!

...what a great work, both in modelling and render

...ja, good news! - at some point in "this game" there always comes a point where we have to catch up with our computers.

I love these kind of native SU-basics (which is not supposed to denote the beautiful model!)

how many times I had been in despair about this very issue This post, as a reminder so to speak, should pop up automatically once or twice a year