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    • ken28875K Offline
      ken28875
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      Very nice model, Rafal. 👍 👍

      Cheers!

      _KN

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      • jeff hammondJ Offline
        jeff hammond
        last edited by

        nice model.
        such a strange looking building.. i like it.
        👍

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        • Bryan KB Offline
          Bryan K
          last edited by

          Very nice! Excellent re-creation!

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          • jo-keJ Offline
            jo-ke
            last edited by

            very nice!

            Did you have blueprints to remodel it?

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            • L Offline
              Lz
              last edited by

              A shame it was blown up. Looks like a very well designed building

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              • Mike AmosM Offline
                Mike Amos
                last edited by

                Nice model, another piece of classic architecture lost due to conflict, sadly.

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                • L Offline
                  Lz
                  last edited by

                  Indeed. I'm guessing it was used as an observation tower / sniper tower during WW2. Blowing up tall buildings was common because of this

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                  • DanielD Offline
                    Daniel
                    last edited by

                    Fantastic work!

                    It appears the brick structure forming the top of the arch is modeled as a separate group or component, as evidenced by the lines at the side and in the center of the arch - hide these edges to eliminate the lines so they appear continuous with adjacent faces.

                    Your brick texture is exhibiting the dreaded moire effect. Try exporting the image at as high a size as your computer will allow, and then reducing the image. That sometimes helps.

                    My avatar is an anachronism.

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                    • DanielD Offline
                      Daniel
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                      @lz said:

                      Indeed. I'm guessing it was used as an observation tower / sniper tower during WW2. Blowing up tall buildings was common because of this

                      It's a Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, which were observation towers built across Germany as monuments to Kaisers Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II. I'm guessing, by how elaborate they were, that monument was the primary purpose, though. There are 14 towers still in good shape (4 have been renamed, such as the Grunewaldturm), and three in disrepair. Others, like this one, have disappeared.

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                      • Rafał_KwiatekR Offline
                        Rafał_Kwiatek
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for your comments!
                        @jo-ke said:

                        very nice!

                        Did you have blueprints to remodel it?
                        I don't have a blueprint only old photos. I know it's not perfect texture. [LZ and Daniel] You're right, that was reason to blow up the lookout tower.

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                        • KrisidiousK Offline
                          Krisidious
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                          That's pretty magnificent... Would love to see it in one of the photorenderers.

                          By: Kristoff Rand
                          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                          • DanielD Offline
                            Daniel
                            last edited by

                            Love the revised images. 👍 👍 👍

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                            • pbacotP Offline
                              pbacot
                              last edited by

                              Great new images! Perfect setting and colors.

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                              • KrisidiousK Offline
                                Krisidious
                                last edited by

                                Nice improvements.

                                By: Kristoff Rand
                                Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                  roland joseph
                                  last edited by

                                  Beautiful if not awkward from a design view. Great model. I'd like it to have more bump and more displacement though.

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