[MOC/WIP] Medieval castle and historic city of Thun

[victorycount]

On 1/11/2022 at 7:43 PM, Khorne said:

Quoting blackdeathgr on this, because he summed up my thoughts exactly. It is truly a work of art you've built. There's stuff everywhere to check out and you've simply nailed the medieval feeling of a city. Amazing!

Thanks so much! Wanted to add much more details and refine it at the end, but stud.io just didn't let me.
Btw. just browsed through your work, and I have to say every single picture of yours is much more art than my whole creation...

On 1/11/2022 at 6:54 AM, blackdeathgr said:

AMAZING!!! You not only managed to get the medieval city "feeling" but you've added tons of details as well. I've wanted to make something like this for my birthplace (Heraklion) with its Venetian walls etc but never got the guts to actually try it even in microscale, let alone build something the size like this!

I am curious as to how many hours the whole endeavor took you and how many pc crashes stud.io enabled. However the case, less crashes than in LDD i suppose...

All in all a most impressive work (of art) ! Its a pity one cannot realize it in brick given the elements costs.

Thank you!!! Haha, yeah it's crazy to build a whole city, this was never my plan. I just wanted to do the castle, which was more than enough, and it somehow tricked me. I found pictures of the old gates and towers and continued, and when I built the whole wall, it was just empty, so I had to fill it with houses... and so on...
But yeah, I would love to see your version of Heraklion, or even parts of it, since it is much bigger than my city. The fortress would even work in BotBS

Well I really don't know how many hours, but it sure was countless, only for some houses I needed several hours(I'm not the fastest builder, and still don't find all the parts I need very quickly). Most of the castle I did in LDD, since it is 1.5 years I go, if I remember well I had several crashes there. With studio, not too much crashes, but first it was very slow and almost not usable. Then with a new Computer it worked well, until the project was to big, and I couldn't even select parts and change between submodel and mainmodel, so I had to build every building seperatly and then import it. Only opening the file takes like 2 minutes, since it is way over 100'000 parts. All in all quite annoying and potentialy gives a headache, but still kinda proud of the outcome.

Although seeing all your work, makes me feel that even your "ugly clocktower" is more elaborated than any of my buildings.
I should definitely visit "Brethren of the Brick Seas" more often!