Thank you all for your comments, I very much appreciate them

@jo-ke said:

My only crit is that the font, that you used in the sign is not right. In the picture it is a more clear one, without serifs

I agree. I finished this on my wife's machine and she doesn't have a lot of fonts installed on it (not like I personally do on my machine either), and I made the sign last, so by that point I was quite exhausted and didn't want to spend an hour just to find a decent enough font online or otherwise. That font just seemed like it at least centered well enough. What I probably should have done, besides spending the time to find a better font, was make each letter individually and manually center them.

@unknownuser said:

i'm thinking you should rework the front (entrance)

it looks too much like something you'd see nowadays and missing the little deco hint of the original.
i think the entrance is more rounded off instead of the chamfer look.

I definitely made a big compromise there. I already went through quite an ordeal to make those flower decorations on the top of the marquee actually match the curve of the sign below them. From looking at the pictures and plans, you are right in that it should be a round entrance instead of what I did - but I knew that in order to make it look more like the plan, I would have had to do the same type of work which I did with the marquee decoration and wrestle with a lot of face intersection and subsequent line erasure.

What I should do next time, given that I have that type of drawing available, is start by reproducing the drawn plan using photo match and pull the entire line work up to the needed height, and work from there.

This is the work I've done to try to recapture the Grand Riviera Theater which formerly stood in Detroit. More pictures and drawings of it can be found here.

I know that I definitely could have put in much more time into details, particularly some of the rooftop ledges, but I wanted to have this done by the end of the year and it felt like it took forever only to get this far.

After so many days of coming home from my actual job to work on this for a few hours, it feels weird to not be using SU right now.

As with the previous project I did, I made this using no additional plug ins or the photo match tool. Everything I put down was based on the best approximation I could make given the resources I had and time available to dedicate to the project.

This is the first work I'm sharing on this board.

This is a model I've made of Haven School which used to be located around 15th Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago. I'm not sure when it was originally constructed nor when it was taken down.

I haven't taken the time to thoroughly color the model yet or run it through fancy renderers so it doesn't look quite so good as others do here but I'm pretty happy with what I was able to make here.

Sure enough, I found the actual photograph of the school only after having completed my work. The image I used for reference was a hand-drawn picture which I found in a History of Chicago book from the late 1800's. As such, I did have to take some liberty in making the model, since I had no accurate plans or measurements to work with.

Glad to have found this forum.

I anticipate using SU far into the future for a project which my wife and I are working on. I look to be creating a city several times over to represent how it evolves through the years.

If there's anything I want, it is to figure out how to get other members of my family to be as enthusiastic about SU as I am! I know I will need as much help as I can get and I want them to be inspired to use SU as much as I want to.