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DAY TWO:
Here
is the hat for the clock tower on the second day of construction.
It takes a long time to get this far because the first layers are all plates
interlocked. (About 12 layers of plates if I remember right.)
In the foreground you can see some of my helpers doing some survey work.
I really enjoyed making little scenes on my models like the mini-figures
where building the model not me. You might notice the black tube
coming down out of the ceiling. This is ventilation for the air on
the model shop. The glue is not very healthy to breathe in the first
twenty four hours when it is setting up. After it dries, it is much
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DAY THREE:
You
can see in day three, I've gotten a lot farther. I'm now out of the
plate layers and I have attached the brim of the hat. The little
workers are still struggling to keep up with me. You can probably
see some of the LEGO beams that crisscross the center of the hat.
Even though the injection modeling that LEGO uses is very, very, very high
quality, on a large open space model like this there will be some warping
as bricks that on the stress of the model's structure. The glue compounds
this problem tenfold. |
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DAY FOUR:
Now
I'm really cooking. Literally. When I was in the Model Shop
there was no air conditioning and it got really hot. (The ventilation
picked up the air over the parking lot and pumped it in, they have since
added AC.) So that is a LEGO fried egg in the foreground. In
the background you can see the prototype I'm working from. You might
notice that it is only half a hat. That is because the model is symmetrical.
So when I build it, I just copy the model as if it was whole. (Right
side = backwards left side.) |
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DAY SEVEN:
Just
about done now. This can be the tricky part, because if I haven't
done a good enough job below, the top will be very difficult to close due
to the glue warping the bricks. (This really only applies to the
large models with open space like this hat. On most models, that
is not a problem.) If you look at the Prototype in the background,
you can see some LEGO arrows to remind me what level I'm coping.
(You hate to count every level when you get this high up.) One guy
is working on a mistake I made on the front of the model.) |
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DAY TEN:
DONE!!!!
All
done now. It's a hat. The large hollow in the front is for
the LEGO light up box that will be placed there. Wonder what the
people are doing now? |
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It's
a topping off party! |
