Hi Johpam, from what hillbilly gave me it took about 40 mins to do the initial building,then about 1 hour setting up the 3D rendering program, then about 3 minutes for each render.
then another 1-1.5 hours changing and adding a few things like boundry walls,driveway etc,the ridge tiles take a long time as they have to be done individually.
then setup the renderer again,another 1 hours, adding trees, textures etc.
the more complex and detailed the image then the longer it takes to render the image,
this one took about 6 mins, but the trees are what take up the time.
say in total about 4 hours work, to get the following picture.
doing it for clients takes alot longer as more detail is usually required.but once its all setup then its easier.
the first post took ages and ages.