I would hope that existing issues with sketchup (Known by everyone here so no need to repeat them) would be addressed before adding more features but it seems not to be. More and more I come to the conclusion that the core free edition should have proper fuctnionality and the pro should have the additional features to bring greater difference from the free version. Not suggesting that the free version should be dumbed down but if folk want more and more features they should buy a level of the pro version, this is done in many cad programs already and works well.

Very kind of you to make this available, thanks very much.

Really nice PR render, fantastic. Any chance you could share the file/model? No worries if not I reckon a few people would like the chance to see what their render engine could produce fom it is all. Really nice mate.

Nice, thanks very much mate.

Very nice Vinh.

That is bloody marvelous, well done Sir.

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.