The Birmingham Project

[Andy_108 1]

There's nothing to show yet as this is just an idea in the making but i'll put an update up as soon as i get a bit futher with the first building!

[patriots_1228 51]

commandment 11: thou shall not create thy thread without thy pics. Good luck, ik jayo will likethis.

[jayo 44]

Yes,i shall-I tried to make BT tower once-I'll try again-Maby we could pare up??

[Andy_108 1]

Sounds like a good idea, This is my current building in production. It shouldn't take too long to make.  http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=durhamtower-birmingham-unitedkingdom

The name of the tower is "Durham Tower" and is in the Ladywood area of Birmingham.

[Callbat 8]

Sounds like an excellent idea, looks like a great building to BAT!

[saltandsauce 0]

can't you do some awesome 19th industrial buildings like factories not scabby old high flats from the 60s

[allez l'om 1]

i purpose the bull ring!!!!

[jayo 44]

i shall do the BT tower-So don't do that-Pretty simple

Also visit this thread-this is what happened when i tryed to make it last time

And this thread is what happened when someone else tryed to make it

[Andy_108 1]

That was a great top start on yours. The other one was pretty good as well! Also saltandsauce i will deffiantly be going for some of the nice old buildings of brum, so don't worry! =P

[jayo 44]

Maby we should start a whole UK batting team-That would be cool

[Andy_108 1]

So far......

I haven't had much time recently so the progress has been quite slow! At the moment i've just got the height and almost got the general shape of the structure.

[jayo 44]

I'm starting work on BAT tower now Great start -Although i thought the building was diagonal-well it doesn't matter-you can highlight all the objects & flick it around when your done.

[Andy_108 1]

Kwl, look forward to seeing some images

I'm testing out some of the textures for my current building and seeing which work best, this is how far i've got now!

[Callbat 8]

looks like a pretty good job mate!

A UK BAT team sound great! Too bad I couldn't BAT to save my life

I really look forward to the sort of thing saltandsauce mentioned, some nice, 19th century stuff.

and of course the sixties towers as well....It just wouldn't be Britain without them

[jayo 44]

Callbat-You could Lot & offer pics and advice;Thats looking great Andy.Heres a good texture for the bit aroud the roof:

[nihonkaranws 88]

Oooh, very good work! Love it!

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Well I am doing the entire Snow Hill estate, including the Weselyn, that new one on Colmore and probably Snow Hill Station.

Thread Here.

BUUUURRRRMINGUMMM!

[Andy_108 1]

WOW! FULL ON SWEET! Are you going to be doing the Snowhill Hotel and Residential tower as well? By the way your London BATs are great! I always use them in my cities!

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, looking fantastic Tonkie!

[jayo 44]

Heres my progress-The model & texture arn't complete and it will look better ingame.

[Andy_108 1]

This is looking really good! Looks like the real thing!

[Andy_108 1]

If you want a really good reference of this building and what it looks like, go to http://maps.live.com/ then go to birmingham and go north west of the queensway road and then turn the view onto the birds eye view and you should be able to get a really good look at the building from the side. Also using the birds eye view you can rotate the viewing direction so you can see all sides of the building.

[allez l'om 1]

great buidlings!!!! i'm glad to see that other people decides to join to this project!!!!!

[Callbat 8]

ooh, I'd love to lot! The BT tower is looking great!

[jayo 44]

New version-not finished.

[Andy_108 1]

Looking good, the top section is looking more accurate as well.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

I have dibsies on the new Peat House, Quay House, McLarin, Selfridges and Fort Dunlop

[spa 970]

Wow Ill Tonkso, that's a really unique structure!

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Just to show what we are dealing with here...

full size.

All Images taken from HERE.

Birmingham is a 2.6 million strong beast. Easily the UKs second city, the city proper being twice the population of Manchester, the third city.

We have our work cut out.

[jayo 44]

Wonderful brum-hehe-I haven't had any time to work on the model as i was spending a weekend in paris I'll be back soon-I'm going to realese a small(ish) prop pack first