TRULY A GRAND PROJECT
I am reminded of the grand cathedral in Serious Sam, which has to be one of the most awesome levels in the series, likely helped along by the music. In any case, how people can muster the patience to make such huge projects in Minecraft is beyond me, but please do continue! It looks like it could be super rad when it's done. c:
meanwhile here's an ugly doodle of AMERICAN JET EAGLE
POWERED BY LIBERTY AND THE SWEET BLOODY TEARS OF COMMUNISM
Ohh, you have noooo idea. I've finally bothered to get an editing tool so I'm progressing leaps and bounds, but up until like 8 hours ago I had to place (and remove) every. Single. Block. By. Hand. It took SO long. Add that to the fact that I'm doing this off the top of my head and have no schematics or the like (though I do have a general idea of what I want) as well as my tendency to think "Hmm, maybe this massive chunk of architecture would look better if I moved it two blocks to the right... Nope, back to where it was before." and I'm pretty surprised the project has even gotten this far. Where the patience comes from, I have no idea. Maybe it's from a desire to actually make something cool in Minecraft for once. xD
In regards to the Patrieagle, I'd say you've got a pretty decent sense of movement. The line work isn't too horrendous, though I think the Eagle's beak looks a little bit blunt. Its appearance really isn't helped by having a crayon texture. Then again, I just hate crayon so it's probably my bias. >_>
Update to the cathedral, I've done a little bit of work on the interior decor and placed some enormous windows to let in the light, and I've gotten the shape down for all of the roof save the back. Now I just need to think of something interesting to do with it... My bet is it's going to have something to do with glass. Lots and lots of glass.
My eventual plan is, once I'm done making the cathedral and its surrounding courtyard+walls, to save it as a schematic using WorldEdit and then transferring it into a normal MC save. When it's in there, I'll put it on top of an enormous floating island with water and lava waterfalls flowing off it (through the cathedral) over a massive lake. Try to find a texture pack that truly compliments it, and admire it in all its glory. After which, backup the save file and then uninstall Minecraft. (Not really, but it would be a pretty neat touch.)