Ive got more suggestions on the arty/weird front for later but for now Im going to shift into models that are more everyday useful.

Rene F has a set of manufacturing buildings that work really well in Iclone. The first one is my favorite. I slapped some glow maps on the light fixtures (admittedly difficult to find in the texture dropdown) and it looks quite nice. About 23K faces but you can play with it to get those down if you like.

Click the model to go to the 3d Warehouse page.

Here is an elaborate and excellent Waffle House Model made by a waffle house cook!

"Welcome to the Waffle House! In 1955, Joe Rogers, Sr. and Tom Forkner opened the first Waffle House (which has recently been restored to its original condition and will become a Waffle House museum) in Avondale Estates, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Today, Waffle House operates over 1,500 restaurants in 22 states. Famous for 'Scattered, Smothered and Covered' hashbrowns, freshly ground coffee, and, of course, the world's most perfect waffle, and serving you 'Good Food Fast' since 1955, Waffle House is open 24 hours daily, everyday. (by the way I do take pride in this model as well as serving food hot off the grill as I do cook at Waffle House, also)."

I'll have a patty melt plate with a double order scattered smothered covered and chopped (yes I spent many mornings and late nights in a waffle house). Awesome.

These images are from Iclone. I added chuck and the lady, ambient occlusion and some hdr (which makes the exterior look worse..sorry) but I didnt spend too much time with the lighting. Its a bit big at 105K faces but I got it into my machine with no problem and you can probably make it a bit smaller if you work at it. I should have smoothed the textures on the light globes in 3dexchange.

Can the model be downloaded and imported into iClone 5?

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Yes, 3d Exchange (a seperate RL application..and easily the most useful tool in the Iclone bag) allows you to convert skp models to iclone props. Converts other types of models as well.

Ah Waffle House, brings a tear to my eye and a little tug at my arteries


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Excellent thread. I've come across many very good models. Recently, I found a decent model of Shakespeare's Globe Theater. I like the fact that it includes the stage inside. With some texture work, this could look very nice.



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Here's Listowell Race Course in Ireland.

The close-up detail is incredible.

Pinhead & Dobbin will enter a horse race there next year, when the Pinhead Projects Committee lose the shirts off their backs 

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I don't have an example at hand right now, but when I worked on my Pinhead's Dilemma movie and needed to portray 50's Britain, I was amazed at the quality of some of the modeling in 3DWarehouse. People would go back to the neighborhood they grew up in and painstakingly reproduce the buildings, many of which would still look the same as 50 or 60 years ago. I also found that textures were much better quality than they used to be, allowing for closer-up shots.

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Hi Thebiz.movies!
Thanks for the link to those building props! They're definitely useful for everything from old-fashioned railway relay interlockings to drab socialist buildings of the Cold War era. (See attachment.) I immediately went to work transforming your favorite building into a drab and dreary, Communist East German "HO-Gaststätte" (i.e. a state-run restaurant), the kind you often came across when visiting East Berlin in the 1980s. (Am still busy adding true-to-style furnishings to the interior.) The typical Berlin-style sidewalk and cobblestone street are partly of my own making. The East German "Trabant 601" (1989's "Car of the Year" that's affectionately called "Trabbi") was downloaded from SketchUp, and lots of details, everything from license plates to headlights, lovingly added in iClone 5.

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From W.H. Auden's (1907-1973) 1942 poem "Canzone":

When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
We cannot choose what we are free to love?
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August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (1796-1835),
Auszug aus einem "An Justus Liebig" gerichteten Gedicht von 1828:

Soll bergen ich mein innerstes Vermögen,
Was ich empfinde zu bekennen schwanken?
Ich schämte mich der eigenen Gedanken,
Wenn sie, wie Schwalben, an der Erde flögen.
Hienieden lohnt's der Mühe nicht, zu zagen,
Und wahr und frei zu sprechen kleidet Jeden,
Da bald wir Alle ruhn in Sarkophagen.

I love the ground textures and the character (pose and general proportions). Good work Hutch.

Heres one I know somebody will have a use for (perhaps a nostalgic PSA, or Adam West inspired comedy). From the 1980s american cartoon, "The SuperFriends", comes...

The Hall of Justice!

81K faces. Rip out the water and the trees and replace them with Iclone elements. The most disappointing part of this model is that there is not currently a Legion of Doom available on the Warehouse (nudge nudge to any sketchup modelers we may have in the forums).