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Old Posted Oct 1, 2007, 10:27 PM
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This is amazing. I remember I used to build cities with chess pieces, pretending they were buildings.
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Old Posted Oct 4, 2007, 4:54 PM
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deco Jim you really can capture Detroit architecture. are you think about doing anymore, soon?
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Old Posted Oct 9, 2007, 9:31 PM
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deco Jim you really can capture Detroit architecture. are you think about doing anymore, soon?
Thank you for the comment.

I probably will not build anything significant in the next few months. I got kind of burned-out getting everything finished for the July 2007 NMRA National Train Show. I have not touched any Lego since then except to fill a few sales from my store on bricklink.com.

I do want to build again eventually and my next few buildings may be the rest of the structures in the Penobscot block. These are:
1. Ford Building (1909, Daniel Burnham, 19 stories)
2. Penobscot Annex (1913, Donaldson & Meier, 23 stories)
3. Peoples State Bank (1900, McKim, Mead, and White, 2 stories)

Eventually I want to build the crown jewel of Detroit architecture - the amazing 40 story Art Deco Guardian Building (1929). Unfortunately I estimate that it would cost at least $5,000 to build in Lego!

By the way Austin55, the builder of the WTC model is another member of the Michigan Lego User Group. The attention to detail in that model is amazing.
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Old Posted Dec 5, 2007, 5:50 AM
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Here's one I made nine years ago. I used the 25th anniversary silver brick on top.

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Old Posted Dec 11, 2007, 2:06 AM
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nice!

I built the eiffel ower theother day,spent 7 hours on it and im 4 years younger than the recomended age limit Ill post pictures when I get em.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2007, 8:05 PM
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I just thought I would mention that while I have taken a break from building, I am still displaying my stuff as a member of the Michigan Lego Train Club:

November 25th train show in Saline:

(My picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/2067795236/)
The dark brown and tan skyscraper in the foreground is Spencer's replica of New York's American International Building in lower Manhattan which due to the smaller scale and selective compression is shorter than the Dave Stott Building when if at the same scale it would be more than twice as high!


December 13-16 display at Detroit's Max M Fisher Music Center for DSO Home for the Holidays concerts:

(My picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/2109202509/)
My replica of the Detroit Public Library (main branch) is the large white building in the foreground.

A snowstorm hit Detroit yesterday morning dumping about 10 inches of snow. Since that was the last day of the display; I had to drive back home from Orchestra Hall in a 2 wheel drive Cherokee packed with fragile Lego buildings on snow covered roads - not fun!
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2007, 10:04 PM
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cool so were do you get all yer peacs from?


anyhow i'm working on a tower crane atm.. wish i had more technic peacs
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Old Posted Dec 19, 2007, 3:01 AM
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cool so were do you get all yer peacs from?

anyhow i'm working on a tower crane atm.. wish i had more technic peacs
The one site that made many of my creations feasible:
http://www.bricklink.com
You can buy all the technic pieces you want from this online Lego brick market!
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Old Posted Dec 19, 2007, 7:52 AM
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The one site that made many of my creations feasible:
http://www.bricklink.com
You can buy all the technic pieces you want from this online Lego brick market!
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:0 wish i had found that place befor i spent 150 on ebay
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Old Posted Dec 28, 2007, 8:51 AM
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ok well i orderd a swack of parts for my crane txs DecoJim
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Old Posted Jan 9, 2008, 2:40 AM
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For those that are interested, here is my latest skyscraper model. Total height is about 0.8m

Click on the image for more pictures.

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Old Posted Jan 9, 2008, 4:24 AM
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Please get a job with the lego co and distrubute those. there so cute,yet wickedly awesome.
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Old Posted Jan 12, 2008, 3:25 AM
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hey lego skyscraper building heads you might be interested in this

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...0%3D%26fvi%3D1
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Old Posted Jan 22, 2008, 6:04 AM
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2005: The 28 story Fisher Building:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/398371952/

2006: The 37 story David Stott Building:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/324881171/

2007: The 47 story Penobscot Building (still under construction):


After I completed the Fisher Building model, I found out about the Michigan Lego Train Club (MichLUG.org) and I joined it. This gives me the opportunity to display my Lego buildings as part of a complete city.

This is a picture from a show MichLTC did on March 3-4, 2007 at the Rock Financial Center in Novi, Michigan (a Detroit suburb):

(the buiding in the right-center foreground is a scaled-down replica of New York's Flatiron building by another club member).
Very Cool!
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Old Posted Jan 28, 2008, 9:24 PM
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Thanks, Surrealplaces!

Spencer (jsr), your Taipei 101 is brilliant!
Is this the first non-USA skyscraper you have built?

By the way, according to www.google.com, today is the 50th anniversary of the Lego brick.

-Jim
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Old Posted Feb 23, 2008, 4:09 AM
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kinda ran outa blue and red 2x2's :S but heres a elevated rail moc up

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Old Posted Mar 7, 2008, 6:54 PM
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update on my tower crane



any my elivated rail
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2008, 7:27 PM
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For those that are interested, here is my latest skyscraper model. Total height is about 0.8m

Click on the image for more pictures.

That friggin' ROCKS!!!! I want one!
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Old Posted Mar 21, 2008, 12:21 AM
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hmmm how can i upload images from my computer??
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