I created a render of University Hall, which has been the main building of the University ever since the University Began
I used google sketchup to create the model. Google sketchup is fairly easy to use once you have learned the ropes. I first traced contours off of a topo map to create the terrain and then I modeled University Hall and Placed it onto the Terrain
The most difficult part was tracing the contour lines of the topo map to get the terrain. This was tedious and time consuming.
Here a couple of rendered images of University Hall