Nottingham Shire Hall Build
Computer design and first attempt
I used sketch up which is used for architectural design to recreate the building. Im not the best at this sort of thing and I struggled with scale so I know not all the bricks are the right size. Looking at the original illustration I tried to work out what parts of the building were brick and what was stone. There are holes in the walls and roof showing its going to ruin. Because this is for a 3D print I had to obviously make things more three dimensional than if it was for an architectural plan and extrude individual stone work to create texture. You can also see where original doorways had been bricked up. 
I then put it in the slicer and attempted to print it at a small scale to fit on the printer in one go.
This first attempt created a small model where some of the features werent visible and as you can see the print failed near the top. But it did kind of work so I went back to the slicer.
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