I really like this build. Fits well with the environment too. Not sure if Cohort is going to let you in, though. They have pretty high standards.
Also, didn't you make an archipelagos build? What happened to that?
Nothing, but it was denied eventually. I still love the build though.
this would be gorgeous if there weren't the random ugly floating clocks around to force a "steampunk" theme.
Well, the definition of steampunk isn't "has to have clocks". It's just something that I wanted to include (I didn't say "Lets make it a steampunk map by adding clocks", the clocks were more of a last-minute thing. I had the idea of steampunk before the project started.)
The reason I called it steampunk was because of all of the the props (All of the various gears, the big propeller in the middle and the clocks) together. To make them not look the same, they all have different times on them, which I thought gave a pretty neat effect.
I'm sorry you found them ugly, but I love them. Perhaps it was the color? I didn't want to make it look dull and gray, so I added golden-type shades of yellow to give it an older look, as well as with the propeller. If I took away the clocks, the build would be missing some character, in my opinion.
I truly hope that this will be my last application and that I can soon host the map. Since I've been dedicated on not giving up until I am accepted, I haven't had the time to just build for the fun of it (Through projects, etc. which I am hoping I can do with the members of Cohort.)
I think that I'll grow a tremendous amount in building skill and learn styles from the different members as well as them learning styles from me. As a writer, I'm filled with ideas on what to do next.
My first two applications were terrain-based. (For all of you who didn't know.) At first, I made a swamp, which at the end I wasn't proud of. The archipelago was a build I was very confident in, but to my disappointment, I learned that I was denied again. Many of the issues from both of my maps revolved around terrain, so for this application, I decided to use a new style of terrain (Hard to see in the pictures) while also not making that the main part of the build.
Fantasy themes are my forte, and I love steampunk as well. There shouldn't be a reason not to combine the two, especially when they're so similar in nature. I've grown a lot in building from just applying several times. (I applied for Height 6 times, and although they were all small builds, at the time, I really thought all of them would get me in. Since then, my views on what is acceptable in my opinion as a quality build have changed.)
This is my first time building so many large-scale applications (The swamp was around 13.5k bricks over 18 64x baseplates, and the archipelago was around 11k-12k spread out over 30 64x baseplates. I haven't gotten the opportunity to measure this one yet, but my guess is that it's around 15 64x baseplates. Its brickcount is 10.3k).
