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Everytime you post a new medieval model the descriptions make me laugh..... Aside from the model being quite inaccurate (as are most of the medieval models posted are), they weren't common at all throughout Europe, but only in Nothern Europe and the still exsisting ones are not only found in Norway.

Hey, he did say,  "...related church types were once common".

So why the chip on the shoulder?

Somebody pee-pee in your Ovaltine?

I'm not sure where you read related, I'm only reading what I see here.

From the link... "Based on medieval wooden churches. The majority of existing stave churches are in Norway, but related church types were once common all over northwestern Europe.  This is a highly detailed and textured model of the exterior only."

I see... incomplete info here.

Stave churches are mainly found in Norway, but there are also stave churches in Sweden, Poland, Russia and Roemenia and even in the US ( but those are replicas) I saw this church last week on television about russian heritage; a simple google did the rest.
regards,

Bopperthijs

Our apologies, it seems like our knowledge of Stave Churches is really inadequate. I was joking with John that we should brush up on our knowledge, because we may end up in a conversation with a pretty girl, and she would want to talk about Stave Churches, and we would have no clue what to say, and she would not want to talk to us.

I will immediately buy a book on Stave Churches and fix our grave error, and write a decent description, lol, so please forgive our sad lack of education concerning Stave Churches.

(PS The model looks almost exactly like the reference picture we modelled it from, so not sure why you consider the model "inaccurate".)

Let me ask this: did you purchase the model? Did you render it from a few angles and with a few light sets to see what it looks like? Or are you basing your complaint on a few sales images?

If you can make a better model, then please feel free.
After all, it's easy to post a complaint about a model that you may not have even purchased and are only judgng by the sales images. It's much more difficult to actually prove your expertise by building an exact replica. And if you are building an exact replica, don't forget the opening doors and interior. And keep the polygon count reasonable enough so the model can be used in Poser. And map the model nicely so users can change the color to reflect the seasons.

I have no comments on your model it looks really accurate to me. I've seen them myself when I was on holiday in Norway but that was 30 years ago.

regards,

Bopperthijs

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I do think it looks quite accurate myself. Here are some reference pictures. The model wasn't supposed to be an exact copy of this church, hence we didn't use the name, but the model was based on this church.

Helgard