Quote: (Apocolocyntosis @ Jan. 04 2010, 20:55 )
This thread reminded me of this old pic:
Hehe. Awsome
Well Less gothic for sure, but imagine the stone architecture replaced with steel girders for the industrial look. You have a reactor like thing replacing the apsis with the main weapon protruding at one end. Then the steel girders replacing the flying buttresses as some kind of supporting framework or scaffolding. The idea is that it will have the rough appearance of something semi-gothic, but made from industrial looking materials.
High-gothic cathedrals are often refered to as having their supporting structures located on the outside of the building, as opposed say a modern skyscraper where you cover the framework of the building with a material like glass to conceal the structure. This is what I think would be interesting to capture.
Don't think a heavy boxy gothic building like the ForgeWorld Cathedral (Or a Leviathan or CI), but rather the spindly architecture of the high gothic which in my mind bears certain resembelances to the industrial architecture of the 19th and early 20th century.
Apologies for the attractive woman: please ignore...well if you want to
Just try and focus on the basic overall shape, ignore all the litle gothic details, but try and replace that texture with girder framework, tubes, wires steel beams and rivets.
PS, sorry about the image heavy posts. Just trying to convey the basic idea here.
(with upgunned Rhino for scale) 
