The_Mario_Man first BATs

[zero7]

Actually, if you look at the picture of the real building over on Mario Man's ST thread his scale is about right.  The three storeys of the fire station are equivalent to 4 on the building next door.  It obviously has very high ceilings on each floor and the comparison is between a civic building and some tenements, which explains the large discrepancy between floor heights.

Shrinking it makes it fit with preconceptions about floor height, but is actually less accurate. I think what may help would be to bring the size of the bricks in line with your shrunken version.  The feeling that it is overscaled is, I think, coming from the bricks rather than the building itself.

[threestooges]

I personally think a mix of the two approaches would be warranted. In the movie, yes the building is large, and zero is right that it takes up about 4 floors to a regualr building's 3. But here, the present model is about 5 floors high. I think some scaling could still be done. That said, I think the brick texture could also be resized. Right now, the bricks seem rather large. There seem to be maybe 14 or so stretching over the two floors. Even assuming each floor was maybe 4m high, that would be  bricks per meter, making them 1.75m (5.7ft) tall. Most bricks I've seen for a basic red brick building are more in the area of 6 inches (1/11th the current height). I'd have to double check the Ghostbusters movie again to see if there was anything special about the bricks there, but those two suggestions could be a good place to start. Nice work so far though. It's coming along.

[The_Mario_Man]

Here's the real building:



And here is the BAT with the scaled down texture:





Also, I've been working on these:

[RippleJet]

Here's the real building:

Thanks!
I need to get a real life again and watch that movie once more...

[WC_EEND]

hehe, someone likes GTA

[Nexis4Jersey]

excellant Bats so far