The Tower of Barad-Dur

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

Hello all, just showing another little project I made. As you may have guessed, the is a stock recreation of Sauron's Eye from Lord of the Rings. Isengard pending.

Daytime shot. The mountains in the back look a bit better than open ground or the KSC, so they are also included.

A more impressive and realistic shot at night. The lights on the tower are set at 100% Red, 50% Green, 0% Blue to get the orange color, in case you were wondering.

And of course, the tower's destruction. This inadvertently happened when I time-warped on it, and found it was not resilient. So I re-created the scenario and took a screenshot. 

Thank You!

Edited April 26, 2017 by LetsGoToMars!

[Matuchkin]

Well, the biggest complaint that I have is that the actual tower is insanely tall (almost a mile), slender and covered in complex detail. This recreation makes it look like a chubby stuffed animal.

Edited April 26, 2017 by Matuchkin

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

20 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

actual tower is insanely tall (almost a mile),

Yeah, but there were some limitations. First of all, the largest stock part that is black is the 2.5 m storage unit. The part count on this was over 300, and it is pretty short and wobbly. At first, I made a taller one with some 800 parts, but despite a large amount of struts, it fell exploded on the pad. So I cut it down and used some 3.75 m fuel tanks to elevate it, despite the fact that those are white. If I had used mods to obtain a large, black fuel tank, I could have made it taller. And, because I could not make it too tall, this does resemble the very top part of the tower, but yes, most of it is missing.  

This is a taller version of the Tower in the VAB. as it was too laggy and exploded when launched.

The VAB is probably still not tall enough to make it proportional, but this does come relatively close.

[degenerate]

This is the kind of stuff I come on here to see, nice one man.

Have you tried enabling unbreakable joints to make it rigid, without having to use 500 struts...?
I know it's "cheating" but it's not like you're gonna fly it anywhere

[linuxgurugamer]

Or autostruts