This looks so awesome, the lines, the shapes, everything fits together seamlessly, as if the town and nature were living together in a symbiosis. The buildings look like natural enhancements of the mountain.
Rebuilding Italy in cardboard
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Your Grandfather had vision. The city must be very proud of him. What a beautiful place to live and work in. I know you work very hard. You deserve to live in such beauty! 
Hello my friends, sorry to have so little time to spend posting my works (so little for building models too...) but I never forget, from time to time, to let you have some update. This post is my first on the new site (an huge thanks to our administrators for keeping this wonderful place alive)...
Here are my latest addictions to the "Little Italy" project:
1) Bologna: this is a very special city for me, it's my mother's birthplace and the city where I lived my first 8 years, and the city where I studied medicine and graduated in the far 1990 (!). The two towers are a really distinctive feature of its skyline, heritage of an era in which the city was full of towers (more than 100 is said).
Yes, one of them is leaning (this must be a recurrent feature in many italian monuments...)
The original graphic provides straight walls, loosing much of the likeness to the real building (like for the San Marino Castle I've already done). This time I tried to do something to enhance the general looking of my model redesigning several parts according to the photos of the real subject.
Ths way the base of the higher tower (Asinelli tower) is much more realistic.
I also enhanced the top of the shorter tower, the leaning one (Garisenda tower) giving it some 3d details (was completely flat in the original design).
Finally I redesigned Saint Petronius statue (he is Bologna patron saint) enhancing resolution and the base shape.
And here is the final result.
Here are my latest addictions to the "Little Italy" project:
1) Bologna: this is a very special city for me, it's my mother's birthplace and the city where I lived my first 8 years, and the city where I studied medicine and graduated in the far 1990 (!). The two towers are a really distinctive feature of its skyline, heritage of an era in which the city was full of towers (more than 100 is said).
Yes, one of them is leaning (this must be a recurrent feature in many italian monuments...)
The original graphic provides straight walls, loosing much of the likeness to the real building (like for the San Marino Castle I've already done). This time I tried to do something to enhance the general looking of my model redesigning several parts according to the photos of the real subject.
Ths way the base of the higher tower (Asinelli tower) is much more realistic.
I also enhanced the top of the shorter tower, the leaning one (Garisenda tower) giving it some 3d details (was completely flat in the original design).
Finally I redesigned Saint Petronius statue (he is Bologna patron saint) enhancing resolution and the base shape.
And here is the final result.
Another city that cannot be ignored is Venezia. Here is a double interpretation of the famous Rialto bridge. The big one is a model I received as a present. Is built in a completely different way compared to usual paper models. Is printed on heavy cardboard, precut and joined with big tabs to be inserted in big slots. Funny to build but not a real reproduction of the real one, more toy than a scale model. The llittler one is the usual postcard scanned and enlarged to A4 format. A simple but very nice model.
And now let's go south, toward Puglia region, to a very loved subject: Castel del Monte. As perhaps some of you remember this is one of the many long-term project that I started some time ago (in this thread) and still unfinished. This is the little paper version of the bigger "rocky" model, as a sneak preview...
... and, just to remember that they are LITTLE models ... a size comparison
And now let's go south, toward Puglia region, to a very loved subject: Castel del Monte. As perhaps some of you remember this is one of the many long-term project that I started some time ago (in this thread) and still unfinished. This is the little paper version of the bigger "rocky" model, as a sneak preview...
... and, just to remember that they are LITTLE models ... a size comparison
Fantastic!!! As for the leaning buildings in Italy, I suppose this is why it is called "Italics"???
Some lovely buildings and great explanations too.
Little Turin models reminded me of my favourite film, The Italian Job with Michael Caine, so many great scenes filmed in Turin and roundabouts
Does the Torino Palavela, Via Ventimiglia with its odd shaped roof still exist in Turin?
Little Turin models reminded me of my favourite film, The Italian Job with Michael Caine, so many great scenes filmed in Turin and roundabouts
Does the Torino Palavela, Via Ventimiglia with its odd shaped roof still exist in Turin?
Thanks Chuffy70. I'm glad to have recalled you sweet memories. Yes the Palavela still exists. After the closure of the 1990 Winter Olympics it remained closed for a few years, now it has been renovated and it's used for sporting events.
That's good to hear, maybe one day I shall get to Turin and see where they filmed all the scenes from the film, thank you for the information