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Hi all,
This has been a long planned and long prepared project of mine (and will
hopefully continue to develop once I have more space) but I think I’m finally
happy enough with it to post pictures. I’ve tried to recreate Moscow in the
early 80s before perestroika and globalisation altered the city forever. I’ve
attempted to keep as much as possible authentic to the era although I believe
the bus may actually be a St Petersburg livery rather than a Moscow one. I’d be
really happy to hear of any inaccuracies or mistakes from people that have lived
in Moscow at that time so I can improve it.
The whole thing sits on a 96x48 base and the street level covers 96x40 (plus a
little extra for tram track). In total there are eight cars (four Zaz 968s, one
ZAZ 965 and three Gaz Volgas), one traffic police van, a Zil bus, a Tatra T-3
tram and an 81-717 Metro train. Total piece count is probably around 5000
bricks.
I have to extend a great deal of thanks to Alexander Horoshilov and Derek Schin
for their help. Alexander very kindly found me a bunch of Russian language
reference sites with photos of Moscow (including some from the very era I was
interested in) and Derek very kindly took some snapshots for me last time he was
in Moscow. Without this help I could never have got this far. Thanks too to Tim
David for pushing me and giving advice on the diorama along thw way.
Anyway, enough talk,
Tim
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BS
Flickr
Hi all,
This has been a long planned and long prepared project of mine (and will
hopefully continue to develop once I have more space) but I think I’m finally
happy enough with it to post pictures. I’ve tried to recreate Moscow in the
early 80s before perestroika and globalisation altered the city forever. I’ve
attempted to keep as much as possible authentic to the era although I believe
the bus may actually be a St Petersburg livery rather than a Moscow one. I’d
be really happy to hear of any inaccuracies or mistakes from people that have
lived in Moscow at that time so I can improve it.
Anyway, enough talk,
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Hi Tim,
Brickshelf didn’t make us wait to long . . .
Looks great! The trains and bus are my favorites. You’ve gotten some really
nice details into the buildings as well as the subway platform. I love the
doubled arches on the subway platform.
Excellent job.
Jonathan
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Uh, oh, you may have an argument to model the underside of baseplates in LDraw:
(It may not be obvious, but I’m being at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek here.)
--Travis
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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BS
Flickr
Hi all,
This has been a long planned and long prepared project of mine (and will
hopefully continue to develop once I have more space) but I think I’m
finally happy enough with it to post pictures. I’ve tried to recreate Moscow
in the early 80s before perestroika and globalisation altered the city
forever. I’ve attempted to keep as much as possible authentic to the era
although I believe the bus may actually be a St Petersburg livery rather
than a Moscow one. I’d be really happy to hear of any inaccuracies or
mistakes from people that have lived in Moscow at that time so I can improve
it.
Anyway, enough talk,
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Hi Tim,
Brickshelf didn’t make us wait to long . . .
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Yeah. I got a little impatient and posted before it was modded... about four or
five hours after uploading.
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Looks great! The trains and bus are my favorites. You’ve gotten some
really nice details into the buildings as well as the subway platform. I
love the doubled arches on the subway platform.
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The arches on the subway are a bit of a disappointment. I can’t really spend
much money on Lego at the moment so I had to simplify them significantly from
the original design with three layers of half stud offsets. The baseplate ceiling
however was a cost-cutting move I was very happy with. For budgetary reasons the
white building also suffered a little in the fine detailing.
Thank you,
Tim
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Hi Tim,
very nice diorama! To be honest, I have expected something different when I read
the title (a virtual version of moscow, of course - for which I am now waiting
month and years...:-) ) It looks like a capital so crowded and also it reminds
me of books about the world (these overviews for children) with all these
different vehicles.
Wish you space (the spatial, not the theme)
Andreas
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In lugnet.town, Andreas Weissenburg wrote:
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Hi Tim,
very nice diorama! To be honest, I have expected something different when I
read the title (a virtual version of moscow, of course - for which I am now
waiting month and years...:-) ) It looks like a capital so crowded and also
it reminds me of books about the world (these overviews for children) with
all these different vehicles.
Wish you space (the spatial, not the theme)
Andreas
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Hi Andreas,
Thanks
I have most of the stuff in CAD so if you’d like to render it I’ll be happy to
assemble it for you ;) Your render style would suit it much more than mine
would... of course it might take a while to render :)
Tim
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I’ve tried to recreate Moscow in the
early 80s before perestroika and globalisation altered the city forever.
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Tim,
This is great! I studied in Moscow for a few months in 1987 and have many
memories of the transport-- I particularly like your subway cars.
To complete the street scene I suggest adding a long line of
shopping-bag-carrying minifigs anticipating a shot at some “deficit” goods.
Judy M.
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Wow, that is a lot of work, and it all looks wonderful. You are a great builder.
- Eric
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I’ve tried to recreate Moscow in the
early 80s before perestroika and globalisation altered the city forever.
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Tim,
This is great! I studied in Moscow for a few months in 1987 and have many
memories of the transport-- I particularly like your subway cars.
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Thanks
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To complete the street scene I suggest adding a long line of
shopping-bag-carrying minifigs anticipating a shot at some “deficit” goods.
Judy M.
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Hmmm... I’ll excuse myself on that one since there are a few police in the scene
;) (not really visible in any of the current shots)
Tim
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in Moscow. Without this help I could never have got this far. Thanks too to Tim
David for pushing me and giving advice on the diorama along thw way.
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Nice work!
So thanks to him for pushing you, yes :)
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Matija
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