Hi(gh)!

On New Year's Day, I decided for the first time to seriously start with 
a landmark building complex for Kabul, POVghanistan: the Soviet-built 
airport, as it looked like around 1970. So I googled for photos showing 
the airport back then, and found a close-up of the domestic flights 
control tower: 
http://footage.framepool.com/shotimg/qf/296679019-kabul-international-airport-hand-luggage-tower-airport-kabul-city.jpg

Another one from 1969, showing the whole building as seen from the 
airfield: http://www.airports-worldwide.com/img/w/kabul_airport_in_1969.jpg

And attached here is with what I came up after two months... pathetic, 
isn't it?

And then I see all your sophisticated projects (Gancaloon and many 
others) and I wonder how you get all that work done, beside your proper 
occupations, partners, family, other hobbies... as an early retiree, I 
have so much more free time available - and still hardly get anything 
done! Could it be that I simply do not have the talent required for 
doing 3D graphics? Or could it be that POV-Ray simply is not a software 
which supports an efficient workflow (are there any professional 3D 
designers using POV-Ray? I doubt...)?

Given the current speed of progress, this modest airport tower will 
occupy me for the entire year 2016 - not to mention the terrain 
heightfield, which will be completed around 2030, having started in 2004 
(unless there will be satellite elevation data of the same resolution 
readily available!). So I'll spend a vast portion of my life to cobble 
together a crude version of POVghanistan/Khyberspace, without ever being 
able to visit REAL Afghanistan (originally, Khyberspace was meant as a 
substitution for the unreachable real thing) and obviously lacking the 
basic skills necessary for POVing, let along using any other 
modeler/raytracer... Khyberspace probably will never be much more than 
Kabul International Airport... I just waste my life!

It's so frustrating... all these things are so huge, and I'm so small!

See you in... forget it!

Yadgar

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