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Old Posted Mar 17, 2016, 11:38 PM
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Another from in Shenzhen, China - SEG Plaza. This was a tricky one to get just right and the antenna still falls short of the exact height it should be but since it's on the corner and not the middle of the building, I had to get creative with the joint and the 4L bar was too long so I went with the 3L instead.


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Old Posted Mar 18, 2016, 5:08 AM
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Two more finished! I was on a roll today and I think from now on I'll be doing two at a time. The Aon Center in Chicago, IL United States is the next in descending order in the "tallest' main series while the Mercury City Tower in Moscow, Russia is a little further down but I spotted it awhile back and have been wanting to have a go at it so I jumped on it as soon as it popped up in the diagram of world's tallest!

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Old Posted Mar 20, 2016, 7:26 AM
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This one was a lot of fun - similar to the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel in the sense that the side towers are on an angle but instead of implementing hing plates they are rotated at an angle on the base. The tricky part was the shorter center section which involved some shuffling around of tiles on the sides of the main towers to fill in the gaps.

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Four more finished for the series, up to 80 models now! All very fun models.

The Torch is yet another tall, thin building in Dubai so I changed up the construction from the typical plates on the sides to using slopes and rotating the entire structure 30 degrees to match the angle of the base so it's more suggestive than accurate but with a 2x2 working area, it's difficult to be any more accurate with the details. The MMC was a variation on other structures with a similar shape.



Kingdom Centre took some time to get just right and I finally found a sound method for lining up the front and back halves using a combination of side studded bricks on one side and brackets on the other.

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Old Posted Mar 25, 2016, 4:43 AM
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Another pair finished - the Bank of America Tower in New York, NY United States and First Canadian Place in Toronto, Canada. I'm going to browse the thread for more requests since I've banged out a good number of "World's Tallest" structures over the past week.

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Old Posted Mar 26, 2016, 11:29 PM
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Two more models done - one that I've wanted to do for awhile, Baiyoke Tower II in Bangkok, Thailand, and another by request, Eureka Tower in Melbourne Australia!


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Old Posted Mar 31, 2016, 12:44 AM
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I decided to take another stab at the Shanghai World Financial Center since I've learned a few more techniques along the way.

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A few requests:
Bank of China Tower,Hong Kong
RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, AL
Prudential Plaza 1 & 2, Chicago, IL
Prudential Tower, Boston, MA
Terminal Tower, Cleveland, OH
4 Seasons Hotel & Tower, Miami, FL
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Old Posted Mar 31, 2016, 6:57 AM
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A few requests:
Bank of China Tower,Hong Kong
RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, AL
Prudential Plaza 1 & 2, Chicago, IL
Prudential Tower, Boston, MA
Terminal Tower, Cleveland, OH
4 Seasons Hotel & Tower, Miami, FL
Here you go! As per your request, the Four Seasons Tower in Miami, FL United States. I was taking a video capture of my process to show in time lapse but forgot I needed the same program to capture images to use for the back and cover art for the instructions and accidentally cancelled the video...silly me.

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Old Posted Apr 1, 2016, 3:34 AM
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Two more for the night! Up to 89 now - I'm going to do one more then publish a Kickstarter I have for all of these - I'm trying to build them all myself and raising the funds by offering the instructions and some other goodies as rewards!


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Old Posted Apr 1, 2016, 11:39 PM
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I redid the Maria City Towers as I wasn't 100% happy with them.

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Old Posted Apr 6, 2016, 9:45 PM
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While looking for another historical landmark to build, I realized that the Home Insurance Building was too large - apparently, I forgot to resize the images when I pasted it into my reference diagram and it was too large so I redid it at it's proper scale.

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Old Posted Apr 6, 2016, 11:53 PM
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Okay, here's the last model before the KS launch! Here's the GE Building in New York, NY United States.



I'll be doing a pass over all the instructions and pieces to make sure everything is ready to go, then finishing up the video for the campaign. I'll either post it later tonight or early tomorrow!
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Old Posted Apr 8, 2016, 4:02 AM
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I found another model that had parts not actually available. Almas Tower used white 1x2 Technic lift arms, which aren't actually produced despite being available in LDD so I had to redesign the towers. I'm not quite as happy with it as I was with the previous version but on the bright side, it uses less pieces.



The other models I had to tweak were all ones that used medium blue 1x6 tiles so that was a pain to have to go back and fix them but better a little extra work and proper models then leaving folks to figure out which pieces to replace them with and how to alter the builds on their own!

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Old Posted Apr 8, 2016, 8:20 PM
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For those who have been following my series, the KS is officially live!



Thanks to everyone who made suggestions and encouraged me throughout the process, I couldn't have done it without the AFOLs!

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Hi Everybody,

Marchitecture is complete, and the winner has been announced!

Please check it out!

https://www.flickr.com/groups/marchi...57666854209936
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Old Posted Apr 12, 2016, 6:24 AM
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Here's the first of the final ten models, 70 Pine Street. You can pop on over to the Kickstarter to request other structures in the comments section. If you feel so inclined, please consider pledging!

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Old Posted Apr 14, 2016, 8:02 AM
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The second of the final ten models is finished - the Cathedral at Notre Dame! At this point, the campaign is 50% funded!

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