I should have maybe said - I go away on holiday for 10 days next week. Happy to pick something up when I get back though.

Like a SketchUp Airfix model!

I think that's a great idea John - 'Community modelling' - I'd be up for it.

Brilliant to see you posting John. Love your work. Fantastic. No squished frog on the wind screen though?!

That looks superb. Bravo.

This is superb - I'm a sucker for anythign historical and this is a beauty. Bravo!

Wow! Brilliant!

Wow, bravo, sir.

Superb! Love the steam, is that a PS brush?

Not hand chance to do much today, but I've got the elevation scaled and set up in the file, and also learnt something new, that the standard gauge for this model, and 60% of the world's train networks are 1435 from the inside of the rails. In the absence of any front elevations, this is very useful as with photos and the now the gauge size, I should be able to piece together the rest of it.

I have been wanting to give myself a bit of a fun project to do for a little while now. I'm a new dad so don't get much 'me time', but when I do get a bit of time, I love to spend it modelling.

I've decided to model a train, which is a bit odd as I'm not really a train enthusiast, but I do like them and CAN'T WAIT to build a train set for myself my son when he's a bit older.

Alsom the village I live in used to have two railway stations that were on a branch line known rather poetically as the 'Blackberry Line' as it used to transport blackberries to markets in Yorkshire and further afield. More details at the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_Valley_Light_Railway. Since I moved here I'd known there was a railway as various parts of it are now cycle paths, but it was only when the following poster/information board appeared that I got the inspiration to model the locomotive shown.

I figure I can produce some nice renders showing what the village would look like if the line still existed. I've found some information online about it and plan to do a bit of reading around the subject, so I guess the phrase is 'watch this space', although not too reguarly, as it may take a while!

The one of London in the mist is stunning. I would have that on my wall. Amazing.

John, amazing and spectacular. Great work.

How long do you think this baby took to model? And have you migrated to any non native SU tools yet?

Not sure if it's just me, but I can't see any renders in either Firefox or IE. The photographs appear fine, though?

Thanks ever so much for the response(s) - I will give it a try!

Hello chaps,

First post for a while - been a mad few months - I've become a father for the first time, am in training for the London Marathon next month and have got a slightly different role at work.

Anyway, apologies if this has been discussed recently but I am just after the best way of getting a scene in SU to line up with a photograph I have taken of a particular site, so that I can work with them both in Photoshop?

Can you point me to any threads or tips? I have searched but think I wasn't using the best keywords as didn't get much back.

Many thanks.

John, brilliant, bravo.

This is excellent work, well done. Given me lots of ideas.

I don't mean to be nasty, but seriously, have you seen the state of these ...?! Both done on SketchUp too ...

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10998396.Retirement_homes_plan_for_York_pub_site_approved/

and

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/selby_tadcaster/10872585.Selby_roundabouts_art_project_moves_a_step_closer/

These are both from my local paper so there must be tons more out there we can snigger?! Any others?! ...

Stunning, bravo mate!