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As most here know, in the Non-Shipbucket Drawings forum we have expanded beyond ships and even SB scale, to FD Scale, Carbucket, and even Gunbucket. I initially had an idea floating around to have Bridgebucket, after noticing stylistic similarities between bridges and ships. Basically, my idea centered around drawing various real (past and present), never built, alternate, and personally-designed bridges at Shipbucket scale and using Shipbucket style, shading, shadowing, etc, but I haven't been bothered to post it until now. Other rules would be quite simple; stretching to where the bridge meets land and begins/ends, coloring darker with a slightly blue hue below the waterline, and respect for bridges the way we respect ships (no rusty or decrepit bridges).

Then, I realized a bigger picture (no pun intended) when thinking of this. There are a few lineart-centered communities around (most notably LInc), but they are quite loose with style, scale, etc, just general lineart so long as it is either your own or fair use. However, at Shipbucket we have set, established, and relatively easy-to-understand scales and style (the most common obviously being SB), and our Bucketeers are very well-trained and well-versed in these styles.

Thusly, it shouldn't be difficult for our more experienced members (especially the likes of Vossiej and ALVAMA), in a visually-pleasing style, to master the drawing to scale of just about any visible structure in existence.

As a result I have expanded my idea not just to bridges but also to buildings. The buildings would be drawn at Shipbucket scale and style (or FD for smaller buildings), with the general rules such as respect for drawings. The only special rule I would envision is that the scale key become vertical if the structure's length significantly exceeds its width (for example a horizontal marker for buildings like the Pentagon but vertical for the Willis Tower).

I just thought I'd pitch these ideas to the rest of the community, to see what you guys think, any suggestions or recommendations you might have, or better yet some volunteers willing to experiment with this. Drawings would go in the Non-Shipbucket forum (even though it would be SB scale and style), but I'm posting this here because right now it's just an idea and I do not yet have any goods to bring to the table.

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fact is, that some fortresses are already drawn in sb scale

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That's excellent! That means that this isn't entirely virgin territory.

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More Indian and Dutch ones follow when I got to it.

This is awesome, even if these drawings are not new. It looks like this has very much potential to expand.

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I have started to do some work on the medival castel of Tre Kronor, tragiclly burnt in 1697 and the never completed grand Haga palace

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Well, it's been over 2 years since I first posted these plans, and while nothing has come of the Bridgebucket idea yet (which may seem a big odd if you consider that I live in a city with around 446 bridges), I have drawn a decent-sized Skyscraper for Buildingbucket. I still class it currently as a WIP, but the overall building is done. It has the title/artist heading and vertical scale key on it, and it's ready to post here.

Now, while it's drawn both at Shipbucket scale and in Shipbucket style, the subject is, obviously, not a ship, so I'm guessing the Buildingbucket thread would belong in the Non-Shipbucket Drawings forum, but I wanted to check before posting it. Am I correct that NSBD is the most appropriate forum for Buildingbucket?

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Moderators will give You a definitive answer about that, but I guess that it's indeed the point. Besides, there are already some drawings of buildings there (both here and on old forum, I believe).

That's the thing. I've been looking, but I can't seem to find much precedent for what I'm doing here (SB scale, SB style, subject is not a ship). All the buildings I've seen on the NSBD forum are in either FD scale or SB scale x2 (4 pixels = 1 foot). Planebucket uses SB scale and style on non-ship subjects, but that's in the Parts Sheets forum. I have no idea in where those fortresses were originally posted on the old forum. The closest thing I've found to precedent here is Spacebucket, which appears to use SB scale and style to depict things other than watercraft and is located under Non-Shipbucket Drawings.

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Non-Shipbucket drawings works.

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