Thanks Nuc, Peabody,
I've gone with a stack and I'll put a bunch of trees around it like in my references.
All the buildings models are now pretty much finished ..... and I've set aside this week end for texturing.
I've a few colour refences like these
I know the time frame is not perfect but mostly the buildings seem grey/white/ "off white" colours. Shouldn't be too hard to sort out.
Now a point about frame rate in Pearl.
With the release of this mod I shall include some quick changes to the Naval Yard and Forde Island. (These are going to be my next two projects).
To help with frame rates I intend to reduce the number of animated cranes from the 246 "Thousand" cranes down to about the six or seven that were actually there in the forty's.
The other thing will be to remove the Grain silos, factorys, cranes, and partridge in a pear tree from what I thought was a Naval Air Station.
These small changes really help with fps.