Old Man on a Roll - 48 Kitchen Work Top Materials

Not really, I was gazing at all the materials everyone has made, thinking what the hell is left that I can try and make? After all I'm just an old wrinkly beginner at making materials.

Then ! Had a thought, I know I'll try and make some materials that might at a pinch be acceptable as a material for kitchen work surfaces. Obviously a synthetic vinyl material but one I suppose that could also be used on other things. (Shrugging his weary shoulders).

So here is an example of a few of the materials that I've made. The bottom three examples are a variation of the top three examples where the level of specular reflection has been amended.

Here are all 48 materials present in this library.

Three examples of the materials on a typical lump of chip/block board.

Although the pattern in the material is very, very, similar to the point of being perhaps too boring, each one is subtly different.

Actually, after three days trying to work out where I had made a mistake, today I finally realised why the renders of my materials were so horrible. It wasn't until I merge my model work top with the Kerkythea material model that I realised that my model was the wrong size, Although it was modelled as a two meter length it exported out of my modelling program and into Kerkythea a mere fraction of the intended size.

So here is the library...

Fanners_Cladding.mat.zip

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If any one should look at the materials and says "Ye gods, you can't do that!" For pete's sake tell me. Ta!

Wow, these are great and must have taken a lot of work...thanks so much for sharing them with us!

looks nice

[Fletch]

way to go, Fanners!
I can appreciate the work that went into creating this, all the previews, etc.

Very nice materials for work tops, reception desks, shop counters etc. Definitely a winner! thank you very much for sharing.
Sergio

Thanks folks, 'bout time I gave something back to our great community.

[notareal]

Looks good! Thanks for sharing these.

Great stuff here, thanks

Thanks so much REDSQUARE!

Very much thanks.

My pleasure.

Wow! These look great! Thank you!!