Black Napkin Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Hi all, Paul Bambrick suggested that it would be a good idea to share some of the work in progress renders I created for the Temple Mead project. about myself: Left art college in 1981, found representation in 'Garden Studios' Covent Garden working as a freelance illustrator (airbrush artist) Made the switch to digital illustration, in 1995, found some free 3D modeling software that introduce me to the world of polygons ..YXZ cordinance ..texture mapping ..HDRI lighting ..animation and long long render times! needless to say I was hooked! Currently I use 3D modelling and rendering as an aid to my illustration/visualisation work. ...check me out www.rdigital-illustration.co.uk So all that I know can be equally balanced by all that I do not know about 'Fine Scale' and 3D printing (I'm talking vertical learning curve here ) The one thing that Paul impressed upon me during the initial briefing was that "accuracy and precision are paramount", as reference I had copies of Brunels original drawings, a few books and any photo's I could find online, but no measurements! ...the challenge was on. As with most projects my first instinct was to roughly sketch some profile's from the available reference imagery: I scanned Brunels drawings and imported then into the 3D software.. this gave me some good reference for proportion. I then mapped these scans onto 2 separate large polygon objects (front view and side view) The following images are 'work in progress' renders I had sent to Paul as updates. Black Napkin aka Richard Chetland aka Digital Dick! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backofanenvelope Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Richard, Welcome to the group and your have some really impressive work there. I am sure that all here will be looking forward to seeing your progress Curious to know what software tools you are using? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Napkin Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 The link will show you a small animation I put together to show Paul how one single element will connect to another. http://www.mediafire.com/watch/qb07710yty384ol/Temple_Mead_'Connection'.m4v Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles2 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Welcome Richard, interesting work, what scale are you working in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJBambrick Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Hi Black Napkin Quite a first post! Particularly like the wire frame view, incredibly good work, & renders. Well done..........Paul (Files sized to 7mm for output) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Fan Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Excellent. BR also had a complete set of drawings dated July 1972 done for the renovation project by Architect John Mosse to 1/100 scale.Printing your 3D files to 4mm I expect would be very expensive because of the material used to retain the detail at that scale.In the late 1950's I departed from that platform for school in the Midlands. Noel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJBambrick Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Hi Dazzler Fan While we were getting these done, I did get a quote for doing these in 4mm, and it came out at well under ten pounds per unit for a good quality print. i see it as a time issue, even making one, then casting it etc would have taken a month of Sundays. This is much quicker and gives a crisp, accurate and consistent result. There is still plenty of scratchbuilding to be done, a platform with a row of 40mm spaced locating holes, rooflights, stone walls, the end screens etc etc PM me or Black Napkin, or just pop any questions on here........Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Hi Dazzler Fan While we were getting these done, I did get a quote for doing these in 4mm, and it came out at well under ten pounds per unit for a good quality print. i see it as a time issue, even making one, then casting it etc would have taken a month of Sundays. This is much quicker and gives a crisp, accurate and consistent result. There is still plenty of scratchbuilding to be done, a platform with a row of 40mm spaced locating holes, rooflights, stone walls, the end screens etc etc PM me or Black Napkin, or just pop any questions on here........Paul Temple Meads Old Station Sepia.jpg Excellent write up and photographs in MRJ No. 229 which to be quite frank was only bought for that reason ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bigcheeseplant Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Hopefully both Paul & Richard and the model of Bristol Temple Meads will be doing a demo at Railex www.railex.org in May Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clecklewyke Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Hopefully both Paul & Richard and the model of Bristol Temple Meads will be doing a demo at Railex www.railex.org in May I would love to see BTM but I'm afraid this site "could not be found" by my browser (Safari). Can you check, please? Ta, Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Hopefully both Paul & Richard and the model of Bristol Temple Meads will be doing a demo at Railex www.railex.org in May Same here, browser cannot locate so, and details would be welcome please :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bigcheeseplant Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 http://www.railex.org.uk/ Try this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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