Create only one peace of it, than duplicate it 8 times and rotate it around the centre of the clock. It isn’t that hard. Same with most other things in the clock: just create one and duplicate it 12 or 60 times around the centre.
I use Blender.
Good luck to you all!
If you do it properly there’s still a lot of work. Sure, you could just clone elements around, but a professional model would have it all on a single mesh, with welded vertexes so there’s just 1 element. And doing all that can take a surprising ammount of time. I think the guys who came up with the theme knew what they were doing… 
why would a pro make it one mesh? wouldnt that make it hard to apply changes? just askin, wat are the advantages?
i will try to participate in this modeling challenge…
have so far only this, but will try to keep it up
tri count : 45000
sirpetr: Don’t be so modest. You’re off to a great start! I especially like the windows on the bottom, the decorations look great.
One thing, please keep posting your progress on a separate thread, and not in this main one. I promise to subscribe and follow it and try and offer some criticism and tips 
great work sander, good to see u promote blender in here.
can u give me an adress of that media colledge in amsterdam , never heard of it.
Can anyone comment on this, what would be the benefit?
Personaly id weld everything, not cause im pro… its just what i do.
No offense to anyone (including you, nighttrain), but I fail to understand where welding all the verts come into play.
I think the only reason why someone might want to have that effect is to smoothly blend two shapes together in the mesh with a nice beveled appearence where the shapes intersect (as you would need to have it as one clean mesh with welded verts to accomplish this cleanly). But other then that, if the object calls for hard edges, I would not waste my time as a modeller concerning myself with wedling verts… In game development (many moons ago), we had to do just that (weld all verts) for the simple reason that engines back then used vertex lighting. But nowawdays, this isn’t necessary. Especially seeing how this project is not geared towardes videogame modelling, it is rather pointless (unless as mentioned above, you need beveled edges).
Cheers,
NRG
I’m not joining in but I couldn’t help but poke me head in here as I have modeled the tower of London and the parlement buildings years ago for the sequal to Peter Pan called Return to Never Land. Lots of fun.
I’ll give it a shot, but I’d be one week late. As it is, I can probably only do the clock face. Hopefully this challenge would help me be a more efficient modeler
As a newbie I really liked a lot to try to model the clock face detail.
I learned a lot about simmetry, replicating objects and it was really funny
I envy all guys that are pro in 3d (I only have time at night after work for modelling 
Dont’ know If I will succeed in finishing before deadline heere the link to my thread
Hello guys and girls, i tried to participate with the best of my knowledges at this contest with short deadline and lot of difficulties. I begin it maybe too late, but that was fun :bounce:.
I have started the project with XSI to try to learn it, but the difficulty was to high and i was searching too much to do something that could took me 2 min in 3dsmax so i switched of program will the process.
I didn’t count the time but its about 10 hours for this little part :D. I’ll try to finish it on my own, i think its a good personnal challenge and it can have a place in my future demoreel.
ok here is the link to my thread http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=365859
I’ll post some wireframe shot later. And i don’t think that a side view could be interesting 
600x800 pictures (clic on the picture for a larger version 1200x1600)
I’ll try to be in time for the next challenge.
Cheer to all people who had participated to this challenge, u have all done nice work! :applause::applause:
Sorry for my english 
Later !!!
Ok here my final result for saturday vote, i had time to finish what under the clock, but i didn’t had time to work on the roof, i’ll still have time to work on it, but after the vote ;).
Stats
3D Studio max 8
vray render
basic color for the texture
faces 417 431
vertices 511 427
Ortographic views 800x600 [size=1](didn’t have time for best quality render sorry)[/size]
-wireframe(too much edges in this)
between 15 and 20 hours (hard to say cause i give a lot of small periode of time)
still lot of time if i wanna finish the work I’ll try but like a participant of the david challenge said, it’s harder to continu after the deadline…
I hope u like it, good luck to all modeler
(Clic on the picture for larger version)
Final render (1200x1600)
Close up (800x600)
I would like to thank all who participated in the second Hardcore modeling challenge.
It has been a great experience, and we will have the next micro challenge up soon.
Ok drumroll please, here are the winners!
Keep an eye on this >>>>LINK<<<<for future challenges!
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Ok drumroll, here are the winners!
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Best Detail Model_________________
[b][size=3]Artist: [font=Arial]Erik van Helvoirt (Phade01 )
[/font]WIP Thread:[color=darkorange]Hardcore Modeling Challenge: Big Ben - Clock Detail[/color]
Comments:Final Entry[/b]
I’m really pleased with the end result, i don’t think i ever made anything this detailed.
Render time: about 7 hours
Rendered and modeled in Cinema4D
Time spend on it: estimaded 60 -70 hours
Final Entry:
Orthographic views:
- Top
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/3384/3top8ee.jpg
- Side (Left)
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/3313/1left9as.jpg
- Front
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/9568/2front3db.jpg
And the Winner…
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Best Modeling-Name,Most Realistic Model,Best Shading, Best Rendering & Best Overall Entry
[size=3][font=Arial Black]Artist: [size=2][color=darkorange]Petr Dvořák (sirpetr)
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WIP Thread:[color=darkorange]Hardcore Modeling Challenge: Big Ben - Clock Detail[/color]
Comments:Final Entry
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FINAL ENTRY
Hi all. Its high time to say my last words to 2nd Modeling challenge.
Today it was really exhausting. The last day in the morning I found in the thread that we are finishing today. For some reason I thought that the dateline is 16th. It was my big fault and I wasnt really happy. But now I can say I have completed most of that I wanted.
The tower, as you can see, isnt fully completed. There is no bottom part, the easist I can say.
STATISTICS
RENDERER - MAXWELL 1.2.2a
MESHES - 2.999
TRIS - 1.156.830
VERTICES - 624.305
TIME SPEND (not exactly but estimated)
5 hours - looking for references, preparation, correction of photos - levels, sharpening, estimating measures from photos
110 hours - modeling
6 hours - texturing, painting textures
6 hours - final touches, rendering
I wasnt able to deliver to this midnight more renders. Tommorow (exactly today) I wont be at home, I will spend all the day at the cottage because of some important issues, but later will post wires and more renders. Good night.
[b][size=2]Best Modeling[/size]
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[li]Erik van Helvoirt (Phade01 )[/li][li]Petr Dvořák (sirpetr)[/li][li]willohmsford (Phil Nolan )[/li][li]Dominik Kirouac[/li][/ol][size=2]Most Realistic Model[/size]
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[li]Petr Dvořák (Sirpetr)[/li][li]Erik van Helvoirt (Phade01 )[/li][li]-[/li][/ol][size=2]Best Shading[/size]
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[li]Petr Dvořák (Sirpetr)[/li][li]Erik van Helvoirt (Phade01)[/li][li]-[/li][/ol]Best Overall Entry
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[li]Petr Dvořák (sirpetr)[/li]
[/ol][size=2]Best Rendering[/size]
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[li]Best Rendering-Petr Dvořák (Sirpetr)[/li][li]Erik van Helvoirt (Phade01 )[/li][/ol][/b][/size][/font]
