Street Scene - Police building model 1

This took some time to get my head around how to achieve this :

first the police building - I did not want to spend time trying to create all the detail on each side of the building therefore I drew an octagon and deleted all but 2 segments (this then became the original) from this I found I can create instances, which will replicate any details I create/change on the original.

Seems to have worked althought I need some more tutorials to succesfully add the maps and lights.

The building was created as a hexgon - 8 sides added, then all but 2 of the sections deleted this then created an original that I started to work on, once created I copied instances and placed them together and grouped them to create the police building

There are problems using group: once the group is created the original becomes part of the group and then can not be edited to change the instances.

Animation with a group is also difficult - I will find out later, although this is a static building I may not need to animate it.

I was going to use the symmetry option (mirror) -  remembering my childhood days of playing with mirrors I, but I needed a copy not a mirror image.

I found another image to work with which made me realise that a cone shape would have given more perspective to the building.

I have continued with the orginal model and added a map, spheres, colour and details

 

 

I have had to add more edges to to enable adding the smaller building lights, I tried quick slice but found an easier way - by selecting the larger egded area where I needed more edges - using the connect option with the edit edges area I could select how many edges I required.

 

I detached the large illuminated sphere before I copied the building - I will attach this at the end.  I did not want to create copies of the sphere - 1. because it would not be needed and 2. to keep down the file size.

 

I cloned the model and used the instance option, changed the pivot point and rotated the new section around into place, I continued with this as shown:

 

 

 

I made a few adjustments with the mapping