Lincoln-Berry-Store.blend
- April 11, 2013
- 622 Downloads
- 8 Likes
- Blender 2.6x
- Render: Blender Internal
- Creator: reidh
- License: CC-0
Description:
Platted in 1829, the town of New Salem existed for about twelve years before being abandoned and left to pasture. The Berry-Lincoln Store was probably the first building in the original village and was constructed in 1829. It is remembered as the town's only frame, not log, structure. The building was eventually sold to William Berry and Abraham Lincoln as a store. The enterprise failed, leaving Lincoln heavily in debt. The conscientious manner in which Lincoln worked as a store clerk and his everyday dealings with people led to Lincoln being nicknamed “Honest Abe”.
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Duion
Written April 12, 2013Cool idea, are the textures all public domain? But the mesh could be much better, the vertex should be merged and the objects with insane polycount fixed also solidify modifiers are not useful here.
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reidh
Written April 13, 2013Sorry, solidify modifier makes planes visible from either side for me. Please feel free to reduce vertex and poly counts that was just busy work. See the web site for texture disposition. They are free to print and make paper models, without I suppose restrictions on use, as long as credit is given, I would think. These are all public buildings. I made the model by opening PDF, clipping textures, and then unifying size and levels in P-shop, and then importing - Images as Planes, then using K-key to cut them out like cookies, and then rotate and assemble.
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reidh
Written April 14, 2013I wish I had the floor plans, but the paper model site didn't provide them. must be for kids.
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Duion
Written April 15, 2013If some textures are missing just map something that looks like it could fit from another texture to it, people will not notice, but if you leave it blank, they likely will.
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BMF
Written July 05, 2013I just want to say that I appreciate your historic model. In college I majored in history and although I'm now 67 years old, I still study a wide range of histories. However my favorite periods are colonial American history, the American revolution, and the Civil War. You could spend a life time studying any one of those three much less all the other interesting histories.
I think historical model, like yours, and historical scenes are important as they expose others to aspects of our culture and history that they have likely never seen or heard of before.
I am an avid student of the Civil War and I'm embarrassed to admit that I had forgotten about the Berry-Lincoln vignette. Thanks for reminding me that I need to review those events that I have long forgotten due to work and other distractions.
You have inspired me to re-read Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln. Thanks.
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reidh
Written December 06, 2013I am humbled, and that, if in fact true, makes my time spent well worth it.
see all about this and more here below; http://www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/construct_mainstreet_LincolnBerry.htm