[NicoR44]

Hi all,

The town where I live here in the Netherlands will soon turn 1025 years, it's going to be a big festival.
Every street will have it's own decoration, our street will turn in to France for a few days, and I'm the one who has the privilege to build the Eiffel tower.
Material will be 3mm laser cut sheet aluminum.
it's going to be 6.5 meters = 21.32 feet high and the base is going to be 2.5 meters = 8.20 feet wide.

here is a first impression of what it's going to look like, actually this is not the final version because in the mean time I have found some of the original blue-prints

hope you like it, once I have the new version I'll post it here

[Neil Evans]

Hi Nico

Nice project to do, you'll have to show us the final photos as well

By the way is there an echo in here??

[NicoR44]

Thanks I will!!

By the way is there an echo in here??

hehehehe, corrected

[Olivier Cugniet]

Hi Nico,

I think i have somewhere a model of the eiffel tower. I can give it to you as a reference....

cheers,


Olivier

[Fernando Tella]

I have some old pictures. If I have a time I'll upload them for you.

[NicoR44]

Thanks Olivier that would be great!


Hi Fernando, Thanks man!!

[Mihai]

You'll need rivets.......lots of rivets

[NicoR44]

ain't that a bitch

[Fernando Tella]

One collage:



Cheers!

[glebe digital]

Good luck Nico..........I've a model of the tower here too, shout if you need it.

[NicoR44]

Thanks guys!!

woow great photo, that helps!!

Thanks glebe I think I have evrything I need now, had a "bit" of help from Olivier also;)

I will post an update later on today

[Xlars]

Super .. I love the look and feel of this rendering (coloring, light, composition etc.) Simple looking (not simple model) and cool atmosphere.

[Hervé]

he he that's going to be cool.... there is a resto at 2nd floor ....

[NicoR44]

Thanks guys!

hehe due to the new great reference I got from Olivier and the photo above from Fernando (thanks guys!!) I was forced to redo the structure

yeah I've been on the tower a few times now, every time I'm up there I grow to love it more, never been in the restaurant, maybe sometime.
Btw does anyone know if it has a Michelin star?

here are two new quick renders to show the new version, when you compare the two you will see that the new one is much more realistic

ow, here is a little info:
Geometry:

Num Meshes: 7
Num Triangles: 487384
Num Vertexes: 239963
Num Normals: 23153

Bitmaps:

Num Bitmaps: 0

[Hervé]

Nico, what 's your city in NL... I'd like to see it build...

cool render, but that's usual....