I’ve long known that this structure would get at least one post to itself. These were a little tricky because of the way they curve:Ĭontinued progress on this tower will also have to wait till a future post, but in the meantime I thought I’d at least share something. Here the arches are starting to take shape. I’m aiming for something of a happy medium – the goal is for it to look the way it does in the film, if a little less detailed. One challenge is that the dimensions of the full-scale set don’t quite match the dimensions of the miniature, at least according to the available blueprints. This is the lower level where Harry hides during the climactic confrontation, but without anything added above it yet:įunnily enough, this is closer to how the book version of the tower would look, in that it’s got a flat top and crenellated ramparts.

Here’s an interesting “deconstructed” view as I start to build the area that also existed as a full-scale set. There’s a lot of detail in the main turret where several important Half-Blood Prince scenes take place.

I’ve got more fixes to make based on the new photos, but I’ll save those for a later post and round this one out with a bit of Astronomy tower progress. Here’s the unadulterated render from the end of the video. I’ll warn you that it’s a slow video, but I got requests for some modeling without the usual time lapse speedup, so…there ya go.

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