Lately I bought a book with 500 3D models. On the cover and the prints in the book promised really good, high res models for only 50 Franks so I gave it a shot. Well, I learned why it was only 50 bucks 
Anyway, I decided to start modelling again and thatās how far I am now. Modelled and rendered in C4D and its far from being done:)
And hereās a shot from the 1st floor. Realized I need a few more windowsā¦
thanks for looking and merry Christmas to everybody!
Looking good so far. Iād say the morph effect for things as seen through glass is a bit distracting as the warp in the glass would have to be tremendous to produce that significant an effect at this scale.
Iād suggest some dormer windows on the roof.
Texturing will make or break this shot.
Well I think Iām done with modelling for now and will start with the texture work. This is gonna be a hard one, as texturing really istnāt my strong sideā¦
Okā¦ started with the texturing on the veranda. The wood planks on the veranda look ok in direct light, but when I look at them in this radiosity render, I think Iāll have to rework it, its way too uniform.
Oh, please donāt mind the ādirtā on the housewall, its no texture, just a dirty nuts shader that got out of control 
As always, suggestions are welcomeā¦
Looks good so far. The only thing i don`t like is the wood texture u are using its looks a bit strange.
Looks good, but now itās starting to look a little unrealistic. Maybe you can make the wood slaps individual pieces, no thatās too much workā¦ Umm, try bump mapping the indvidual textures, like make the bricks more 3d looking and the roof tops, thatās my only criticismā¦ Itās definitely groodā¦
Model looks awesomeā¦ and your right the shingles do look kinda goofy and they dont popā¦ i cant tell you how to do this since i dont know the program yetā¦ but i am an architecture student
and teh decking needs to be goin gin the same direction or parallel :ā¦ but i love the model looks greatā¦ keep it up
Iām happily painting now. If only preparing the UV Map for painting wouldnāt be such a boring job 
Iāve done the outer wall of the 1st floor now and the veranda. Iām not happy with the roof of the Veranda, I tried to model the shingles, but this doesnāt help much too. I guess I have to try different render settings later. The bump map renders better in Lightwave or Messiah:Studio. So I thinks I 'll have to fiddle with the lightsetup - once Iām done with texturing
Modeling is looking good. But the textures are taking away from the model right now. The wood still doesnt look quite rightā¦you may try modeling every board seperately, it should not be too hard if you just do one and clone it, but i think that would bring more realism to the scene. The shingles look strange too, but i dont know what to tell you about thatā¦maybe try modeling those tooā¦just an idea. If the house has siding on it, i think you need to make it jut out more, or model it for more realism, then concentrate on adding grungy old textures on top. I know ive said to model a lot of the details, but trust me, i modeled my house a while back, and the siding and shingles looked a lot better modeled than they did with textures! Good luck, and keep us updated!
Basicly everything on the outside is textured now and Iām happy with the texturemaps so far.
Next will be to adjust lighting so the white is not that much overexposed and make the white paint look more old, so if anybody has a neat trick how to add āageā to white paint, please tell me
Many thanks for all your feedback and help, its very much appreciated!
i would imagine that the whiote would yellow or brown get a little darker have some dirt on itā¦ etcā¦ but thats just me
yup. Basically, add more dirt. Add mildew. and fade teh paint. it wouldntā necesarily flake off everywhere, and where it does, it wonāt be clean wood, but wood that has paint ācloudingā over it.
found a good tutorial on how to do roofs HERE
found that tutorial at http://deep.sitenest.net/tutorials/
hope that helps
this is going in the right direction,
as for crits, well maybe just a suggestion,
but think about what happens to paint once it chips, dirt start to gather somehow the paint around it develops this bubbly characteristic, most paint chips give an indication of origin e.g. a crack in the wall, area that is most vulnerable to the elements, the idea is there just follow up on it you know what I mean.
mean model. cheers
First of all I want to thank everybody here for the great feedback and suggestions youāre giving me here. This really pushes me forward And hereās how it looks now. Its not perfect yet, but for my first texturing job Iām pretty happy with it.
For the roof of the porch, I think I will remodel this part too. It will be the third attempt then, I will surely take a deeper look in the tutorial Brian suggested.
awesome job so far keep up the good work, i was just looking through the 3dstudio max tutuorials and found that tutorial and thought hey maybe this will help hope it does.
great work here Swissphil:)
my only crit is tat you need to support the porch that supports the roof, but you are probably getting to that cheers
Window glass looks cool. There is still something about the siding that doesnt look rightā¦it looks too flat. Oh, and the door needs a door knob.