my prim hunt has been very successful and i freed up well over 100 prims. all i can say is sculptie stairs are the greatest thing evah! there are more prims to pull from my house yet and who knows what other sculpties i will put to work. time will tell. but since i had prims to work with i decided i wanted a gazebo or a trellis of some kind for the area on the top of the hill, overlooking the canal.
i have decided i want to at least try to build things before i rush out and buy them so i have been spending a bit of time practicing my building skills. its not easy to make great things but i have the basics down by now. remember my first build?
it didn't suck *completely* but it does look like something made by a first time builder in that the proportions look way off and nothing lines up perfectly if you look closely at all. i was so proud of my work at the time and to this day i love this silly little thing because i made it with no plan, no help and no clue. given all of that it is pretty good. so, fast forward a few months and this is what i came up with for my garden over the weekend.
better, no?
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How did you learn to build? I finally got around to buying a little 512m2 plot of land to practice on. I've taken some classes at NCI, but I'm curious how others have gone about learning to build.
how? i took one class and dragged chester and marko with me, if i remember correctly. they spent the entire hour and a half laughing and asking me things like, "are you ok?"
then one night i went back to my land and had this idea for the gazebo. i pushed prims around, cursed and stayed up for hours until i was bleary eyed and the picture you see is the result. between that, setting up and decorating my various houses and fitting prim skirts i learned a little bit. don't be afraid -- just go slow so you don't delete sections of your house. (not that *i* have ever done that. more. than. 3 or 4 times.)
Wow! The trellis is gorgeous !
why thank you very much garrett. i appreciate the compliment
OMG I love the gazebo!!! So cute!!!!
Lunette - I learned by watching my friend f00 build his house. He gave me some lessons and then I got better when I tried to build a replica of my RL bed. I also spent a lot of time at Heron's Island sandbox watching people. One tip: use the grid! The grid is your friend!
Chestnut that is beautiful. I am hanging up my building hat. ;)
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