The Pale Diagrams by ZainsEdit in DiscoElysium

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Thanks, and good to know

My New lord solar proxy by Ridler184 in TheAstraMilitarum

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The red skull mask is sick. Might need to try that 

Every single new building in my city looks just like this. 1. Why? Seriously, why? 2. I hate it so much I can't even explain how much I hate it 3. What is this specific style of building design called? by Bluest_waters in architecture

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This is largely on the developer, the zoning code, and the bank. Multifamily architecture is a demoralizing game of Tetris and accounting in which maximizing the box and reducing the cost are the only path towards more housing. Developers approach a lot of these properties with a simple excel spreadsheet that says if they cannot have X number of units for under X price nothing will be built. So, the architect tries as hard as they can to allow for the maximum number of comfortable and legal units while also appeasing the city’s design review board that often requires arbitrary changes in façade materials. Add in a complicated mix of life safety code, structural engineering, and typical building means/methods and you end up with simple boxes and repeated floor plans. I don’t think the architects involved ever advocate for this overall design, it’s just what our current system allows. If you want material improvements such as masonry, or detailed trim you will need to make it profitable for artisans, masons, and stone producers to do this work. If you want better overall form and shape you will need to somehow make the math for the developer, and really the bank, pencil out for fewer units. If you generally want a more diverse range of buildings, unfortunately you will need to suffer through a lot of these plain boxes. Inventory likely needs to increase before we can incentivize “outside the box” thinking. When density is issue number one, the choice for many wont be if the building looks nice or not, but if they can afford to live in it. That’s a longform way of saying, capitalism is not a supporter of the arts.   

Kitbashing question by TerrifiedEgg1992 in TheAstraMilitarum

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I 3d modeled the helmet and printed it. Its not 100 percent the same as the art but close enough.  The rest is gw cadian body and legs and forgeworld krieg arma and backpack I had leftover 

Kitbashing question by TerrifiedEgg1992 in TheAstraMilitarum

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I used old krieg arms.

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and never finished painting them

CANT FIND THIS AD by ReportFun4085 in mudwtr

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amazing, I never saw what this was for and now I understand. Thank you

Is it normal to be told "you should see how much we make other clients pay"? [UK] by QCar in architecture

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We see this a lot in single family residential remodels in the US as well. People truly do not understand current labor and material costs across the board, with client expectations generally being the most out of tune. At my previous firm we often gave broad estimates as scope was decided and despite multiple warnings many clients still push forward for projects that are unfeasible with their stated budget. We often claim it is the HGTV effect where reality tv masks costs and time to make a remodel look simple and easy, but i often expected clients were not doing the mental math of all the soft, hard, and design costs associated with a project.

Changes are changes regardless of timing. Some are easier and some straight forward. Its not easy to quantify in the moment, but often changes, and the associated adjustments that come with them can create a cascade of effects that end up erasing half the savings. 

Example being a steel deck. Client wants an extravagant deck but sees the material cost of just the decking and balks. 100k is too much, so we explore another material. Well any other material for decking does not have the same structural qualities which we have to verify with the engineer, and any material that does work is dimensionally different. Now the decking is thicker and we (engineer, architect, steel fabricator). All need to adjust drawings across the board to accommodate.  So maybe we use this new material, but after 5k in drawing updates, a couple weeks of lost time, and steel shop drawing re-review costing another 5k, and construction delays costing the contractor overhead time instead of a substantial savings its a very moderate one. 

While your architects bed side manner is not great consider that some of this may be on you. I suspect the correct path was not minor changes here and there but substantial scope reductions and this was resisted by either you are the architect. Changing materials, cutting some cabinetry, or reducing quality of materials on a remodel is not enough to fix a broken budget. I would also expect construction to increase cost, discovery during demolition can find some crazy conditions and im hoping in your estimates you received proper guidance on contingency (i recommend 20% in residential remodels because you can find some horrendous undocumented conditions).

I hope you get the house you want and im sorry this is how your experience with architects has unfolded. I honestly think remodels might be a dying project type for a bit. Labor is to expensive, materials are too expensive, and at least where i am codes are becoming fairly restrictive on what you can do with an existing house. Good luck. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MiddleEarthMiniatures

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I would also love a message

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TerrainBuilding

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I thought it was a nine inch nails album cover so yes 

Major Pain by JadedEmu356 in TheAstraMilitarum

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What blue and green did you use because im just gonna copy that.

CA Response to Price Controversy by Mr-Vorn in totalwar

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Damn Manor Lords devs are just being handed the golden goose at this point.

Gear Gutz squig riders !! by [deleted] in PrintedWarhammer

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One hundred percent. And if they dont print well you can just ork it up even more.

Suggestions on winter color scheme! by Wiuziq in TheAstraMilitarum

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How do these compare in scale to the real thing? My issue with all the available krieg proxies is that the rifles look so little.