London Heathrow Airport

[Gijs]

Hi,

I've not yet finished this projects, but I couldn't wait to show you some screens. So here they come.
Please notice that the models are not done! If you find any mistakes or something else please tell me.

Terminal 5a

Terminal 5b

Controltower

You can visit the Heathrow collection through this link: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=7b25245bc3c0053747ae9fd92160d466

[tomislavm]

it is nice and smooth, i like that

[Gijs]

@tomislavm said:

it is nice and smooth, i like that

Thanks, that's because i've made them as easy as possible to get a place for them in the "Best of 3D Warehouse"-layer. And I'll place the models also in a flightsim called FlightGear (http://www.flightgear.org ) so they have to be easy and phototextured.

[ELYSIUM]

They look low poly and the textures are great, it whould be nice to see them with a statellite pic below, like in google earth

[Gijs]

@elysium said:

They look low poly and the textures are great, it whould be nice to see them with a statellite pic below, like in google earth

I'll post some images today

[Gijs]

Here:

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[ELYSIUM]

Tks.

I too a look at the airport today with GE and the only word that comes to my mind is controled chaos. Is it still like that?
Your buildings look realy great. Are you going to make all the small buildings and acess corridors?

[Gijs]

Yeah, heathrow is a real chaos: take a look at the taxiways to the runway (6 planes in a polonaise waiting for takeoff). My goal is to make it a bit (or better) as an airport I made before: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol:

[ELYSIUM]

Really good! You can even place some low poly planes to get the sense of scale ( william T has some nice low poly planes on the warehouse)

I only see one minor problem, the satellite pic on GE shows the airport under construction, so the buildings will look like they are in a midle of a war zone until construction stops and google updates the pics.

Keep us posted on your updates!