Hi Fred, could you PLEASE spare a tenth of a percent of that talent? Or maybe not do so well for a while? As always Sir, smart work and great result.......

That Sir, is decidedly cool.

Nice.

The door on the top floor (at the top of the stairs), looks like there is insufficient room to open fully. Thought of turning the door and section of wall 90 degrees? It would also provide some natural light for the stairs.

I think the brick texture could do with a bit of scaling.

I would like to know something, how can we reach the bar if you keep moving it?

Dood, you are a seriously gifted and cool render artist.

Masterful.

Thanks very much, kind of you to share.

Trying to introduce a candle flame to a candle wick with a face me item. Fine until I move the view to render, the face me component starts rotating around a completely arbitrary point and is hovering to one side of the candle wick.

Is there a way around this? I looked at google groups and it was apparently NOT a problem until v7.1........

Depending on the location of the rear sight, you may want to make the front sight a bit taller otherwise it would not be seen by the firer.

Not a 'gun nut' as you put it, I just had a lot of time firing and cleaning a fairly diverse selection as part of my job. Biggest gun I was qualified on was the Chieftain and Challenger 120mm. They do tend to mess up what they hit. They also take a load of time cleaning and then some.

Good debate is the life blood of any forum so long as we keep it clean. We are all entitled to our opinions after all.

Seriously though, similarity of componentry does not indicate a common ancestry, merely the same problems being met with similar solutions. Just take a look at formula 1 cars for example. BTW, the StG 44 began development in about 1939 and production included stampled metal for the carrier and slide cover. It would be interesting to see all three bolts and pins side by side. Those brens are heavy buggers for what they are too.

The bren was innitially chambered for the then current british ammunition which was .303" not 7.62mm. The only bren guns to fire the 7.62 NATO spec ammunition were modified mark 3 and above units and these were not in use until post world war two. The russian ammunition at the time was 7.62mm. Note the progression of ammunition types right up to 76.2mm for the t-34 tanks equiped with what was called the t34/76.

It would not have been logical for the russians to use the 7.92mm calibre used by most german weapons for logistical reasons.

As for experience, my father used the bren gun as his personal weapon during national service and they had a mixed bag of .303" and 7.62mm because the british army were then rearming with the SLR 'Belgian FN' and the ammunition was being standardised. I also had a bren gun as my personal weapon while training recruits and we had a dinosaur of a .303" chambered bren, and no ammunition to fire from it. Your information is flawed sir.

Sorry Damien but the bren gun was NOT reverse engineered to produce the ak-47. If there was any influence from other nation weapons it would have been the StG 44 produce by the germans in, guess it, 1944 and used operationally by the paratroops mostly.

The bren gun was designed by the Brno small arms factory and produced at the Enfield small arms factory. The name 'bren' gun comes from the two town names BRno and ENfield.

Masterful as always Fred, motivation does not come much better.

Guitar theory part twenty five......... Rendered with IDX Renditioner V2 pro for about twenty minutes. not exactly a complex model but a nice result.

Next stage.

I do not mean to be confrontational here but, apparently you are judging my model by your stylistic preferences and this is not a good place to start. You have models which are aggressive and styled for a 'younger' audience where the style you have adopted is something admired.

I am not designing my cars for the rubber band tyre brigade, nothing personal just not what I do, perhaps you can critic the models for a substantial rather than an esoteric reason. At the end of the day it is in the WIP section for a reason too, basically it is not finished yet. Thanks though, I think.

Good point, thanks. I sometimes get distracted and forget the basics. Another renditioner render. Getting more backplates and mats now so this is becoming a more and more useful tool.

A few more details.

Too square and symetrical. A rethink with coupe and hatchback versions. Roof is the thing changed, below the window line they are identical. Coupe is half an inch shorter but the other dimensions are the same. Wheels are 15 inch so a bit smaller.