I promised a few pics of how I built the Château de Chenonceau. After studying reference pictures of the RL château (which you can google) I was able to decide on the size of lot I would need.

As you can see, I built a large foundation and started at the back of the lot, marking out where certain features were going to go:



I continued to build up one side of the château, experimenting with the roof shapes, to determine how deep the building was going to be:



It didn't look too bad from the side... until you had a look at what was going on behind the facade:



I was using CFE as I went along to get the arches I wanted over the water. Once I was happy with the side, I moved onto the front facade and began experimenting again:



After that, I built up the reverse:



And then I had a complete panic about how I was actually going to join the building sitting in the lake to the grounds! I eventually solved this with more CFE work:



Eventually... many hours later... ta-daa! The château emerged!



Then, I just had to move inside and sort out the interior. Which also took a while. Altogether it was 42 hours of building. That's a LOT of experimentation and hair-pulling!

Bye for now!
Tiger :-)