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The final Lego Lego X-Wing, in a hangar in New Jersey before...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:08 +0100

The final Lego Lego X-Wing, in a hangar in New Jersey before being moved to Times Square, New York City.

It’s 42 times bigger than the set it’s based on, which is big enough that the studs have the usual LEGO raised word on the top.

The steel infrastructure of the human-scale model of the Lego...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:55:50 +0100

The steel infrastructure of the human-scale model of the Lego X-Wing (itself made, except for this skeleton, of Lego) that’s currently on show in Times Square, New York City.

Chris McVeigh (aka powerpig’s) latest Lego creation: a...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:40:00 +0100

Chris McVeigh (aka powerpig’s) latest Lego creation: a miniature Polaroid camera complete with an ejecting photograph. (via brothers-brick)

landscapearchitecture via notational: Tokyo University graduate...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:52:23 +0100

landscapearchitecture via notational:

Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama [created] an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire. Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.

I’d love to see an equivalent of this for the London Underground. I did once have a look for detailed elevation (or should that be depth?) data for the stations, if not the lines, but I didn’t look that hard or find anything.

I also considered trying to hack up an inertial recording system, but unsurprisingly that’s kind of tricky. (It’s a shame the iPhone’s gyroscopes probably aren’t up to it.)

thingsmagazine: Lego reel to reel Cute. Nice use of the...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:14:37 +0000

thingsmagazine:

Lego reel to reel

Cute. Nice use of the transparent plates and the relatively new 1x1 round tiles.

Sandia engineer Steve Yearout displays a 1/15 scale model of a...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:31:38 +0000

Sandia engineer Steve Yearout displays a 1/15 scale model of a NAVSTAR Block IIR GPS satellite: “Sandia sends sensors into space to detect nuclear blasts globally”. (Google cache; via.)

Geolocation: UK by Larson & Shindelman. July 2010, Derby.

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:51:31 +0000

Geolocation: UK by Larson & Shindelman. July 2010, Derby.

This is a 1960s postcard of the Army Corps of Engineer’s...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:52:00 +0000

This is a 1960s postcard of the Army Corps of Engineer’s model of the Mississippi river basin, built in Clinton, MS. Approved in 1943, the model wasn’t finished until 1966, and it was made obsolete by computer models (as opposed to hydraulic ones) within a decade.

It’s now abandoned and decaying.

(via chriswoebken; thanks)

thingsmagazine: London Buses, a collection by Kate Farley,...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:41:05 +0000

thingsmagazine:

London Buses, a collection by Kate Farley, presented at Obsessionistas, a website about collections

Aw.

Three more from the Atlantic Cities post of photos of world...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:24:00 +0100

Three more from the Atlantic Cities post of photos of world leaders and models:

Then-Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok walks carefully through the miniature streets of Amsterdam at the amusement park “Madurodam” in The Hague. Photo credit: Reuters/Str Old, March 27, 1998
Franz Muentefering, then-leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, places a building into a model railway during an exhibition in 2009. Organizers invited most of the German political parties to design their ‘Idealland’ (Ideal country) within the model. Photo credit: Reuters/Christian Charisius, September 5, 2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspects a model of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport during a visit on March 28, 2011. Photo credit: Reuters/Alexei Nikolsky