For the last couple of days I've been working on the raised roof over the first
class lounge and reading/writing room. Here is a close-up of the compass tower.

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On 3-8-2018 3:09, Ton wrote:
> For the last couple of days I've been working on the raised roof over the first
> class lounge and reading/writing room. Here is a close-up of the compass tower.
> 

I really like your level of details, combined with a minimalistic use of 
textures. It has - from the start - a finished look which most 
work-in-progress scenes lack. Looking forward to (much) more.

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Thomas

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On 03/08/2018 07:26, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 3-8-2018 3:09, Ton wrote:
>> For the last couple of days I've been working on the raised roof over 
>> the first
>> class lounge and reading/writing room. Here is a close-up of the 
>> compass tower.
>>
> 
> I really like your level of details, combined with a minimalistic use of 
> textures. It has - from the start - a finished look which most 
> work-in-progress scenes lack. Looking forward to (much) more.
> 

I agree.
The binnacle itself looks interesting with its Kelvin's balls.


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Regards
     Stephen

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On 8/2/2018 9:09 PM, Ton wrote:
> For the last couple of days I've been working on the raised roof over the first
> class lounge and reading/writing room. Here is a close-up of the compass tower.
> 

Very nice. So sad that you have to sink it!


Mike

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Bedankt Thomas,

I couldn't hink of another way of texturing. Afterwards you would have to go
through all your sources, find the objects, and give them the texture. Why not
immediately, and get it over with?

Thanks Stephen, it seems that yuo know about ships. I didn't know those spheres
are called Kelvin's balls. So they are there for correcting the magnetic field.
I'm learning every day doing this!

Thanks Mike, I don't HAVE to sink her. Would be a shame....

So now I'll have to get my jig-saw, and make the holes in the raised roof for
the windows.

Cheers
Ton

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On 04/08/2018 01:55, Ton wrote:
> Bedankt Thomas,
> 
> I couldn't hink of another way of texturing. Afterwards you would have to go
> through all your sources, find the objects, and give them the texture. Why not
> immediately, and get it over with?
> 

Commendable. :)

> Thanks Stephen, it seems that yuo know about ships. I didn't know those spheres
> are called Kelvin's balls. So they are there for correcting the magnetic field.
> I'm learning every day doing this!
> 

I think that they are only called Kelvin's balls in the UK.
 From Wiki.

> These are colloquially known as "Kelvin's balls"[1] in the UK, and "navigator's
balls" in the United States. Unlike most display binnacles today, which have the balls
painted red and green to represent port and starboard side of the vessel, the balls
shall be painted black or have another uniform colour. 

It is just that I was brought up in a shipbuilding area. You could say 
that is in the blood. ;)
I also spent a couple of years working as an ET, on semi-submersible oil 
rigs. They are classed as MVs.



> Thanks Mike, I don't HAVE to sink her. Would be a shame....
> 

I wouldn't. :)


> So now I'll have to get my jig-saw, and make the holes in the raised roof for
> the windows.
> 
> Cheers
> Ton
> 
> 


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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Le 18-08-05 à 03:42, Stephen a écrit :
> On 04/08/2018 01:55, Ton wrote:
>> Bedankt Thomas,
>>
>> I couldn't hink of another way of texturing. Afterwards you would have 
>> to go
>> through all your sources, find the objects, and give them the texture. 
>> Why not
>> immediately, and get it over with?
>>
> 
> Commendable. :)
> 
>> Thanks Stephen, it seems that yuo know about ships. I didn't know 
>> those spheres
>> are called Kelvin's balls. So they are there for correcting the 
>> magnetic field.
>> I'm learning every day doing this!
>>
> 
> I think that they are only called Kelvin's balls in the UK.
>  From Wiki.
> 
>> These are colloquially known as "Kelvin's balls"[1] in the UK, and 
>> "navigator's balls" in the United States. Unlike most display 
>> binnacles today, which have the balls painted red and green to 
>> represent port and starboard side of the vessel, the balls shall be 
>> painted black or have another uniform colour. 
> 
> It is just that I was brought up in a shipbuilding area. You could say 
> that is in the blood. ;)
> I also spent a couple of years working as an ET, on semi-submersible oil 
> rigs. They are classed as MVs.
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks Mike, I don't HAVE to sink her. Would be a shame....
>>
> 
> I wouldn't. :)
> 
> 
>> So now I'll have to get my jig-saw, and make the holes in the raised 
>> roof for
>> the windows.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ton
>>
>>
> 
> 

Just seen a documentary on the Titanic.

When it left port, there was a coal fire in coal bunker 9, that spread 
to bunker 10.
One of bunker 9 wall was also a bulkhead. The heat critically weakened 
that bulkhead. It's the failure of that bulkhead that doomed the ship.
They had just enough fuel for the trip due to a coal miners strike.
The only way to deal with the fire was to use it or let it burn out. 
This explain why the ship was going so fast, and why they did not divert 
to a safer route. They had to go that way or run out of fuel before 
reaching port.

The company was in a financial stranglehold and had to cut corners to 
save on the building costs. They used lower quality, and thinner, steel 
than in the blueprints. It's also known that the rivets where fragile.

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I must say, you're making great progress!
I wonder what you're using to make your pieces and keep everything properly
placed and to scale.  Your workspace must be a sight to see!  :)

Coincidentally, I just found this in my news feed:

The Titanic under construction at Harland and Wolff shipyard Belfast, 1910

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Am 05.08.2018 um 20:03 schrieb Bald Eagle:
> I must say, you're making great progress!
> I wonder what you're using to make your pieces and keep everything properly
> placed and to scale.  Your workspace must be a sight to see!  :)
> 
> Coincidentally, I just found this in my news feed:
> 
> The Titanic under construction at Harland and Wolff shipyard Belfast, 1910

Not to be confused with her older sister ship, the Olympic, seen much
more prominently in the foreground.

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Bald Eagle, my modeler is good old-fashioned kpovmodeler for the parts. I've

(http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/scale_model/s_mod_150e.htm) for my
deckplans, so I know where to place those parts.

That Belfast gentry might be a nice, interesting, challenging Povray project!
Better practice first with something simple, like the Forth Railway bridge or
the Eiffeltower.

Cheers
Ton.

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