Subject:
|
Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Tue, 23 May 2006 01:15:39 GMT
|
Highlighted:
|
!
(details)
|
Viewed:
|
8216 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.town, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
| |
In the roaring 20’s Detroit was the 3rd fastest growing city in America after
New York City and Chicago. Jim has a LONG list of downtown Detroit Art Deco
office towers available for him to build..... such as the 47 story Penobscot
Building, and the downtown showstopper... the 40 story Guardian Building,
America’s premier Art Deco bank building. Like he did with dark orange
bricks, Jim would probably clean out all the orange Lego bricks in Bricklink
in order to build that one (the original has 6 million orange glazed bricks).
Great work Jim!!!!
Gary Istok
|
Thank you.
Do not think that I have not considered modeling some of the other architectural
masterpeices in the city. Last year I actually laid out a one story outline of
the Guardian Building in red bricks before deciding that in order to do the
building justice I would have to purchase about 5 times as much dark orange as I
ended up using in the David Stott Building. The hexagonal or octagonal patterns
in the tile work would be a huge challenge as well. Maybe when I get a $10K
bonus at work, I will tackle that one. I think the Penobscot is next. I will
try to complete it for the NMRA NTS 2007 in (guess which city!). Again, thank
you for your comments. -Jim
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
|
| Great work Jim!! Although I haven't been involved with the Michigan club, I had the pleasure of meeting Jim last August when he was on tour of Downtown Detroit's Historic Theatre Tour, where I was a guide. A great guy! Jim has also done a (...) (19 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
13 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
