Xanthone

For a long time I have been thinking about building a windmill as you find them in the Netherlands. I started with a mockup months ago for trying out sizes and shape and it's been sitting there for well ... months. Two weeks ago I decided "enough is enough!". I opened Blender and started building. It took quite a few attempts .... building in Blender, uploading to the testgrid, trying it, testing it, going back to Blender to tweak and add the next part. I am very happy with the outcome and here it is .... Xanthone, a Dutch windmill!

Imbue

I'm still not quite sure how this started but I decided I was going to build the house I grew up in. It started as an exact replica, but SL didn't like that, it was too confined. There was two ways to solve it .... make it bigger (didn't want to do that) or lose some rooms (lost some rooms).

This house taught me how to add shading to give proper depth to a texture. I had done it before, but never like I learned when making these textures. Even I have to admit I love the brick texture, but also the texture for the doors inside with the etched glass.

I have showed this house to my family without telling them about it beforehand and they all recognized it, even though the inside isn't quite as it was. So I think I succeeded :D