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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the ILTCO
layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in Detroit on
July 28 - 30th.
This MOC is a model of the Griswold Building, a midrise structure designed by
architect Albert Kahn in 1929. It primarily uses old brown and old light gray
for the facade.
Links:
Brickshelf: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=258575
MOCpages: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/31870
For those of you who are planning on participating or showing up for the NMRA
NTS, I look forward to seeing you there.
-Jim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, James Garrett wrote:
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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in
Detroit on July 28 - 30th.
This MOC is a model of the Griswold Building, a midrise structure designed by
architect Albert Kahn in 1929. It primarily uses old brown and old light gray
for the facade.
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WOW!
The building itself is a great MOC, but what surprised me even more was the
quality of your photo work... the thumbnail on the LUGNET front page made me
think it was a picture of the real building. VERY nice!
Jan-Albert van Ree
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In lugnet.town, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
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WOW!
The building itself is a great MOC, but what surprised me even more was the
quality of your photo work... the thumbnail on the LUGNET front page made me
think it was a picture of the real building. VERY nice!
Jan-Albert van Ree
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Thanks for your comments. Besides trying to emulate the proportions of real
buildings with my MOCs, I try to photograph them in natural light from typical
street level vantage points in an attempt to add realism. One unfortunate
problem is that I have a small backyard with trees on every side so it is
difficult to exclude “giant” trees from the picture (Photoshopping them out is
too much work). -Jim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, James Garrett wrote:
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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in
Detroit on July 28 - 30th.
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Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever. I think I speak for everyone when I ask: But can you
build anything smaller? Besides the car, that is (which, to be fair, is
actually building bigger as far as our club goes).
Anyways, does this mean it wasn’t fully completed when you brought it to the
last meeting, or did you just need time to produce/post photos?
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In lugnet.town, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, James Garrett wrote:
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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in
Detroit on July 28 - 30th.
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Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever. I think I speak for everyone when I ask: But can
you build anything smaller? Besides the car, that is (which, to be fair,
is actually building bigger as far as our club goes).
Anyways, does this mean it wasn’t fully completed when you brought it to the
last meeting, or did you just need time to produce/post photos?
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Dave:
Was that first one a rhetorical question? If not, do you not remember my Brush
Park victorian and my 8x8 stud vignette: Harry Potter and the run-away mine car?
The building was 99% complete when I brought it to the last MichLUG meeting. I
was awaiting one last bricklink order of 1x1 old light gray plates and 2x4 brown
plates that I needed to complete the detailing at the roofline. The building
was completed on June 7th. -Jim
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In lugnet.town, James Garrett wrote:
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Was that first one a rhetorical question?
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Mostly good-natured ribbing. I mean, consider the fact that while you may not
be able to claim having the tallest building in a town display (I have no idea
who might hold that record at present), you’ve quite possibly got a claim on
having the one with the most total volume. The only other buildings I’ve ever
seen that even compare to the Fisher in that sense are large hangers (one in
particular had the UCS ISD parked inside). Building small just doesn’t come to
mind when thinking of you.
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If not, do you not remember my Brush Park victorian
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Er, uh, no, actually. I remember the art museum, which is actually considerably
smaller than the Griswold. Remember, I’m not a town guy.
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and my 8x8 stud vignette: Harry Potter and the run-away mine car?
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I remember that one, and that you had at least one other vignette for that
contest. Can’t seem to find any photos of these in your Brickshelf account,
though...
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Most people don’t realize that before the depression Detroit was percentage wise
the fastest growing city in the world, and surprisingly has the 3rd largest
collection of pre-depression skyscrapers in the country (after New York and
Chicago)!!
It will be a long time before Jim runs out of Detroit Art Deco office towers and
early 20th Century buildings as inspiration for his building talents! :-D
Gary Istok
Another Metro Detroit resident...
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In lugnet.announce.moc, James Garrett wrote:
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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in
Detroit on July 28 - 30th.
This MOC is a model of the Griswold Building, a midrise structure designed by
architect Albert Kahn in 1929. It primarily uses old brown and old light gray
for the facade.
Links:
Brickshelf: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=258575
MOCpages: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/31870
For those of you who are planning on participating or showing up for the NMRA
NTS, I look forward to seeing you there.
-Jim
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From the thumbnail on the Lugnet front page, I thought this was a photo of a
real building that the MOC was based on. I’m pretty much a space guy, but this
MOC amazes me. Great work!
-Dan Rubin
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In lugnet.town, Daniel Rubin wrote:
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From the thumbnail on the Lugnet front page, I thought this was a photo of a
real building that the MOC was based on. I’m pretty much a space guy, but
this MOC amazes me. Great work!
-Dan Rubin
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Thanks for the comments! I would probably be a spacer if I wasn’t so interested
in architecture. I read a lot of SF and have some old dusty plastic spaceship
models hanging up in my house. Have you seen my only Lego space effort (Bab5
Hyperion class heavy cruiser:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=112390)?
-Jim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, James Garrett wrote:
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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in
Detroit on July 28 - 30th.
This MOC is a model of the Griswold Building, a midrise structure designed by
architect Albert Kahn in 1929. It primarily uses old brown and old light gray
for the facade.
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Just stunning. Great details and excellent use of colors, both old and new.
Another thing I really like about this is that it is not a huge skyscraper. It
is the type of building, in my view, that will be on a layout but not
necessarily be the main focal point. But, if it weren’t there, you’d surely
miss it. I think buildings like this are the heart and soul of a layout.
Greatly looking forward to seeing this in person.
Excellent work, as always.
best,
Jonathan
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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Just stunning. Great details and excellent use of colors, both old and new.
Another thing I really like about this is that it is not a huge skyscraper.
It is the type of building, in my view, that will be on a layout but not
necessarily be the main focal point. But, if it weren’t there, you’d surely
miss it. I think buildings like this are the heart and soul of a layout.
Greatly looking forward to seeing this in person.
Excellent work, as always.
best,
Jonathan
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Thanks!
While this building is not exactly small at three feet high, I did think that
the Lego Detroit skyline would look a bit funny with no medium sized buildings
to transition between the skycrapers and the two and three story buildings. And
besides, I simply like Albert Kahn’s design for this building.
I am working on another building of almost the same size for the show. I am
also working on a Detroit Public Library main branch building as a counterpart
to my DIA Art Museum. At least two other MichLTC club members are building
good-sized MOCs based on Detroit buildings for the show.
-Jim
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In lugnet.announce.moc, James Garrett wrote:
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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in
Detroit on July 28 - 30th.
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A 2 word review: “Hubba, Hubba!”
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For those of you who are planning on participating or showing up for the NMRA
NTS, I look forward to seeing you there.
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Ditto.
JOHN
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"Jim Garrett" <jsgarrett@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message
news:JJEot4.5Ay@lugnet.com...
> I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the
> ILTCO
> layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in Detroit
> on
> July 28 - 30th.
>
> This MOC is a model of the Griswold Building, a midrise structure designed
> by
> architect Albert Kahn in 1929. It primarily uses old brown and old light
> gray
> for the facade.
>
> <<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DecoJim/GriswoldBldg/griswold4562.jpg>>
>
> Links:
>
> Brickshelf: <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=258575>
>
> MOCpages: <http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/31870>
>
>
> For those of you who are planning on participating or showing up for the
> NMRA
> NTS, I look forward to seeing you there.
>
> -Jim
Jim:
Another wonderful depiction of a great building. One question - when
looking at the building from the front, at the top, you have what appears to
be two 1x4 white arch pieces side by side - however, they are only 7 studs
wide total - where they meet should be 2 studs wide (like on the side of the
building) but they are only 1 stud wide in the middle - is this a new piece?
If not, how are you getting this effect? Thanks.
Tim
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