Archive for the 'miniature art model' Category



Mini Steel Miniature Storage Buildings

A blog on miniature buildings, this guy has hundreds of these small buildings, visit his blog – Miniature Buildings





Sydney Opera House Facts

Some interesting facts on the actual study model of Sydney Opera House: It was vanished for more than 30 years ago and has surfaced inside 24 storage crates at the customs warehouse in western Sydney. It has in 2,500 pieces, and the instructions for putting it back together were missing The model – a “crystal [...]





Matchstick Marvels – Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

God must be crazy, he made so many of them. This is madness, my brain would explode into tiny bits if I were given the task to built this matchstick version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the Matchstick Marvels museum in Gladbrook, IA. The entire Harry Potter castle should be finished by [...]





Paper Craft / Papercut Model Making

Not really architecture or model making, but Peter from Oncotton found a new way of making models or shall I say paper craft. His idea is to explore the relationship between two and three dimension by using a single sheet of A4 paper. This reminds me of my previous post – Canon 3D Papercraft. This [...]





Honey, I Shrunk Moscow

Images of the Moscow Panorama, the construction of the model took as many as over 300 workers in 1977. The panorama draws swarms of sightseers from around the world. But the company that now owns the 16-meter (50-foot) wide model of the city center said it doesn’t have the money to maintain it, and has [...]





San Marco Square, Venice – Lego Land

The image above gives you San Marco Square (Piazza San Marco), which is the main square in Venice. It is surrounded by chic sidewalk cafes and fancy suvenier shops. This is the fourth post on Lego in my blog, I call it the invasion of Lego. Previous article: – Lego Guerilla Advertising – Allianz Arena [...]





Creating Miniature Models Using Photoshop

Receding Hairline has an interesting tutorial on how to turn you boring travel photos into a miniature models look alike. You can actually browse through his Flickr’s photo album for more samples. The main key towards producing a good looking miniature model images is snap the photo at a bird eye view angle. Preferably from [...]