Hahaha, I've never been to the market here.
I don't think it was a bad idea. Most of the large scale works are made by more than one individual. I'm making a greek town myself now, and it's taking a very long time to do all of the work alone. It does get boring too, after a while; starts to seem more like work than fun.

What do you render with?

I like those 'gingerbread house' models in your links, those are pretty cool looking; but I have never made anything like that at all. When I read the title of the thread, I was immediately thinking Historical Victorian Era.

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