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Miniature Buildings
No Comments April 10th, 2007

A blog on miniature buildings, this guy has hundreds of these small buildings, visit his blog - Miniature Buildings
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Sydney Opera House Facts
2 Comments March 8th, 2007

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 palace” reportedly worth [...]



Matchstick Marvels - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1 Comment October 28th, 2006

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
No Comments September 13th, 2006

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 papercut [...]



Honey, I Shrunk Moscow
No Comments August 7th, 2006

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
No Comments July 8th, 2006

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 Lego Stadium
- Lego [...]



Creating Miniature Models Using Photoshop
No Comments April 26th, 2006

Receding Hairline has an interesting tutorial on how to turn you boring travel photos into a miniature models look alike. You can actually browse thru 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 [...]



Allianz Arena Lego Stadium
No Comments April 17th, 2006

This sure is one big lego model. Wonder how long it took these guys to build the Allianz Arena lego stadium. When I was a kid, I love lego and that was the time before computer games goes big, which makes me curious about today’s kids. Do they enjoy playing Lego over computer games?
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    Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

    Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

    The author is not a CAD expert nor a web genius. Just another guy spending too much time online (believe me, way too much). The tutorials featured here are meant for basic level understanding.








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