The Eiffel Project
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Hi friends!
Still working on the tour, almost arrived to the top. Little time for building, even less for posting, please forgive my little presence.
This time I'll start wit a great mistake I discovered, as always, when it was too late... After having glued the halfway stairs platform I realized it was turned 45 degrees from the right position... aaaargh!!! Removing it was a pain... and some of the details was ruined and had to be replaced. I took the opportunity to add some more details to the underside that was "naked" in my first attempt.
Now, after some restoration work, I am right at the same point as before, but the balcony is at the right angle...and with some more details in the lower side.
Now let's go with the last batch of frames....
Unfortunately, as I was afraid of, going up, the beams became thinner and the laser, instead of cutting details, burns most of them. So I was forced to re-draw all the last section making all the beams thicker so that the laser leaves enough paper to consent to build the structure... The second attempt (really there was more then two...) was successful and the main body could be completed.
At the very top there are eight shelves sustaining the last section with the belvedere. For them I used again the well known "sandwich" technique to have a complex piece with the right width and very thin details.
This is the actual state of the upper section of the main body. Now I'm going to deal with the greatest of all challenges... to realize the belvedere and the last section with all the complex structures and antennas, I'm planning to add a LOT of custom realized details. The original model was very approximate and poor in this spot... I studied a lot the photos of the topmost part to figure out how to render it at the best.. See you very soon with the final chapter!
Still working on the tour, almost arrived to the top. Little time for building, even less for posting, please forgive my little presence.
This time I'll start wit a great mistake I discovered, as always, when it was too late... After having glued the halfway stairs platform I realized it was turned 45 degrees from the right position... aaaargh!!! Removing it was a pain... and some of the details was ruined and had to be replaced. I took the opportunity to add some more details to the underside that was "naked" in my first attempt.
Now, after some restoration work, I am right at the same point as before, but the balcony is at the right angle...and with some more details in the lower side.
Now let's go with the last batch of frames....
Unfortunately, as I was afraid of, going up, the beams became thinner and the laser, instead of cutting details, burns most of them. So I was forced to re-draw all the last section making all the beams thicker so that the laser leaves enough paper to consent to build the structure... The second attempt (really there was more then two...) was successful and the main body could be completed.
At the very top there are eight shelves sustaining the last section with the belvedere. For them I used again the well known "sandwich" technique to have a complex piece with the right width and very thin details.
This is the actual state of the upper section of the main body. Now I'm going to deal with the greatest of all challenges... to realize the belvedere and the last section with all the complex structures and antennas, I'm planning to add a LOT of custom realized details. The original model was very approximate and poor in this spot... I studied a lot the photos of the topmost part to figure out how to render it at the best.. See you very soon with the final chapter!
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Truly a work of art!
Someone is either going to buy it or put it in a museum!Amazing! I'm (almost) speechless!
Truly in awe of your skills master builder!
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Like I stated before, don't take that model to France, it will be stolen. I'd put a marker on it, so if it gets stolen, and is found, you can prove by the hidden marker, it is yours. The value of that model is incalculable.
It truly looks excellent, great job, fantastic craftsmanship.
It truly looks excellent, great job, fantastic craftsmanship.
I was thinking... you could take some of those really badly damaged struts and have a Godzilla attacked version..
Just saying...
UHU02 already did something similar with his Tokyo tower... this could be a nice idea!I was thinking... you could take some of those really badly damaged struts and have a Godzilla attacked version..
Just saying...
Yes, after several trial and error I concluded that any detail under 0,5 mm is at risk, even if the beam is said to be about 0,1 mm wide any cut closer than 0,5 to the next one burns too much paper, at least this is the consideration i made with my hardware and current cut settings.
For anyone interested to the laser applications in cardmodeling could be a good idea to collect some basic info for a tutorial...
...and this is the next challenge, the spot where I will be forced to imagine more than I did so far. As you know I decided to represent the tower in its actual state, not the original 1900 appearance. So, to build the top section, the original drawings are not very useful because this is the point where the difference from "then" and "now" is greater.
This is the belvedere as it is in the original project...
...and this is how it appears now
No drawings as reference, only photos that I am trying to decode and transform in paper pieces...
Some of the drawing work is already done but, I know, my model will have a good percentage of Tonino's imagination beside real details... I just hope to achieve a realistic appearance. soon I'll start posting something about this last challenge.
This is the belvedere as it is in the original project...
...and this is how it appears now
No drawings as reference, only photos that I am trying to decode and transform in paper pieces...
Some of the drawing work is already done but, I know, my model will have a good percentage of Tonino's imagination beside real details... I just hope to achieve a realistic appearance. soon I'll start posting something about this last challenge.