Basic block-shaped out

Based a bit on one of my images which I felt best resembled reality, with a bit of reference to Google Earth (maplandia...?), I modeled a version of The British Museum.

It's based on a slightly older version of the building, hence it's missing some wings, but as it's only a very basic version, it's fine - I was just trying to see how it looks approximately...




-The aim from this is to make it look more complete, get the missing wings, etc,.
-Additionally, I'm still trying to get some proper blueprints and scale information to make it the correct size...
-Once those two points are met, I'll be trying to make it more my style
-Lastly, I'll start collecting textures that I'll need to get everything to look correct, along with figuring out lighting and camera setups.

SOME plans...continued...

Going to see how this goes from here...

SOME plans...

Haven't been able to find very good plans, especially ones with any form of measurement...

Got a few basic ones I can get the general scale from at least. Will try and model something from these, and then scale the whole thing up to real-world sizes when I'm more informed.

Advancing 3D Architectural Project

I'm gonna be building and designing a 3D Building in 3DS Max for my Advancing 3D Coursework. 
Given the choice of The Globe Theatre, The British Museum, Tower Bridge, or St. Alban's Cathedral. Looked at them in class, and I picked The British Museum.

Ok, so I went into London and with my vid cam gathered some pictures and video shots of largely the front side of the building. Can use them as reference material, like to measure how many pillars along they are, how far away in ratio to their own size they are from each other, bit of depth of field as I'm constantly moving. Also took a few close up images which I thought might be useable as textures, although as they were taken with my vid cam they may be iffy-quality. Will have to wait and see how they look when I get to the texturing portion of my project.

Gonna be modeling the whole thing, but I'm allowed to change it as I want, make it more appropriate and/or interesting to the times, although not allowed to go silly, like equipping the building with a laser defence grid...

Gonna be looking for some specific sizes and ratio's too. Hope to see if I can find the plans for it online or something...