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Hi
After a while of non-posting of any MOC’s I am proud to announce my newest
Microscale creation - The Eureka Tower 1:300 scale .
This is 4 months in the making (mainly due to running out of Dark Blue and
having to buy more) and hence this hit the wallet pretty hard. It is just under
the height of the Eiffel tower at 1 metre, and has a power function setup inside
the top to periodically extend and retract the “edge” sky deck. The center core
is built studs down, which allows the lip of the DBley tiles to act as railings
for the balconies. The tower has a diamond shape from above and twists as it
climbs, which was a challenge to recreate in this scale
It first appeared publicly at this years Brickvention, and consists of 2 VW’s
and 5 Bricklink orders just for the Dark Blue
More Photos can be found on flickr with comments
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186055@N07/3254939946/. and extra images on
Brickshelf http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=366688 (all taken
by Shannon Ocean, I broke my camera). (for reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_tower )
So what is the announcement? Well, The Eureka Tower was spotted by a manager
from the same tower in question, and as of today, for approximately the next 3
months, The Eureka tower, the Shrine, and Flinders st will be on Public Display
at the Eureka Sky Deck in Melbourne.
I have also finally uploaded to Brickshelf/flickr the shrine and Flinders st
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186055@N07/3255158684/
Flinders st http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=366690
The Shrine of Remembrance
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=366691
Enjoy
Aaron A
PS. for the purist, 1 piece is glued (the pressure kept popping it off) and the
gold is painted, due to the supply of Chrome Gold tiles I purchased have so many
different shades and hues, it looked like a patchwork Quilt instead of a gold
beacon
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What great post! Dark Blue, NICE! + the design, stunning. Quite and
inspirational experience for this to happen, very cool!
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In lugnet.loc.au, Eric Sophie wrote:
> What great post! Dark Blue, NICE! + the design, stunning. Quite and
> inspirational experience for this to happen, very cool!
Thx Eric, your support is much appreciated.
A) Yes I agree dark blue (and dark green/red) are great colours to work with,
and B) A public display is something I have dreamed about for a while, for it to
become reality like this is fantastic.
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