Looking good so far

Excellent!!

Looks real good but is the scale between the house and the tower off?? probably just me. 

Yeah, maybe a little, but for the piccy I just scaled it roughly as they are two seperate objects.
I still need to build a connecting building between the cottage and the lighthouse.
The image here is what I used as a guide.

nice looking lighthouse....    its not out of proportion.... the tower could be bigger than that....

Tom - jes it is. the rail guard atop the tower should be about 3 feet high. taking a que from that the doorway on the house is at least 9 feet. The windows too could be a little smaller in proportion to the overall size of the house. - again  - it looks real good, so who am I to complain? All in all it's better than most people could do.

[Disclaimer]
The image there was just a quickie, for display purposes, it was in no way meant as an acurate deptiction of real life measurement. I just wanted to show both objects.... not necesarally in context with one another, just two objects that happened to be in the same image.
I hope this clears up any misunderstanding and I will endeavor to be more precise with such depictive imagary.

Thankyou.

Ok...I got the lighthouse and I love it...but I'm stuck now..my picture is exactly the way I want it but I'm having a really hard time with the light coming from the lighthouse beacon.  It wants to engulf the whole picture..
HELP!
anyone know where there is a tute for lighthouse lighting? 
I'm still learning and it's been a hit and miss but this one has me stumped for now.

I used a spotlight and placed it in the proper place but I can't figure out how to control the size of the cone of light it produces. 

I think you need to use the 'round parallel light and not the cone spotlight. Then use it with volumetric world turned on.
I haven't been brave enough to use it yet because of the very long render time.
Best of luck, can't wait to see it Annie.

Thanks dhama.
The few tutorials that I have seen are for streaming light rays but it isn't exactly what I want and they all say to use a spotlight with volume and infinite turned on..
I finally figured out how to control the size..now I need to play with it until I get the effect I want....sometimes I think I'm too picky but I have the idea in my head and can't get it out..  lol

Continue to be picky Annie, I can relate to that, I can take more time over lighting than anything else.

Well...I've spent a lot of time this evening playing around but I just can't get the light beams to look like I wan't them to.  The house lights are fine and I'm satisfied with that..but gee whiz... :(
Right now I'm trying every light..every way I can...lol

Its all your fault you know.   :m_confused:

Back to work...

I am honoured that you think the lighthouse is worth spending time on. Now, get back to work!!

    :m_tongue2:

I could do that too, and with more eliquance; if I could spell it correctly. :tt2:

oh... Bryce NOT a toy??? I played around with Bryce the whole of yesterday. :blink: