[Local Landmark] Euromast Rotterdam, Netherlands

[m_dejong_lr]

This is actually my first post here on the forum, even though I’ve been following it for a while now…

Entering this contest seemed like a good excuse to finally register as a member ;-)

I live near Rotterdam in the Netherlands and for this contest I choose the Euromast, with 185 m the tallest building in Rotterdam.

Some background facts

Built for the 1960 Floriade Event, the Euromast is an observation tower designed by Hugh Maaskant with a base pillar diameter of 9.6 meter. At 32 m above ground there is a small museum, resembling a ship’s bridge. The platform is at 96 m and houses a restaurant, viewing decks and even hotel rooms.

Originally the tower was only about 100 m tall, but after it was surpassed by other high-rise buildings in the city, it was decided to add the Space Tower: a rotating observation capsule carrying visitors all the way to the top.

With a tower like this, scale wise there were only a couple of options: the base pillar could either be 1 stud or 2 studs wide. The first option was a bit too simplistic for my taste, and because I insisted to add at least some detail I went for the latter option.

This resulted in a scale of about 1/600, making my model 31 cm high. Base and top part were pretty straightforward to build, but especially the middle part took me several attempts until I was satisfied with recreating the particular shape.

Anyway, I had fun building the tower, so thanks for reading and good luck to all who entered!

[Exetrius]

First of all: welcome to Eurobricks, m_dejong_lr!

I am very impressed with your representation of the Euromast, I think you did a perfect job!

[Artanis I]

That's very nicely done, with a very difficult shape to recreate. Great first post.

[CaptainZebra]

Probably the best possible representation at that scale

[BrickJagger]

Nice! I like how you built the middle section, it resembles the source material closely.

[rodiziorobs]

My favorite bit is the observation car, simple but perfect. (I mean, the rest is great, too, obviously)

[Borex]

That looks good! A dutch landmark, nice!

[BrickCurve]

Looks great. Welcome to EB! Is this your first MOC?

[m_dejong_lr]

Looks great. Welcome to EB! Is this your first MOC?

Thanks! I'm more into modifying existing sets, but I'm also the type with "lots of ideas and projects started - less of finishing them" :-P either due to lack of time, money, determination or a mix of those ;-) Hence the growing amount of boxes on shelves that still need to be build, among them modulars, Technic and Star Wars UCS.

Although I did build a couple of MOCs recently for various competitions, so maybe I'll post them later when I've taken some proper photos.

Edited July 6, 2016 by m_dejong_lr

[carebear]

Love this!!!

Great work!!!

Good luck!!!

[BrickCurve]

Thanks! I'm more into modifying existing sets, but I'm also the type with "lots of ideas and projects started - less of finishing them" :-P either due to lack of time, money, determination or a mix of those ;-) Hence the growing amount of boxes on shelves that still need to be build, among them modulars, Technic and Star Wars UCS.

Although I did build a couple of MOCs recently for various competitions, so maybe I'll post them later when I've taken some proper photos.

Excellent news! If you needsomehelp with photography, there are some excellent tutorials in the general discussion forum. Edited July 6, 2016 by BrickCurve

[m_dejong_lr]

Shooting the photos is not really the problem, it's the sometimes repititveness of editing them that I don't like :-P Plus they always look good on the screen of my DSLR camera, but when I see them in Photoshop I'm usually less impressed ;-)

[henrysunset]

@m_dejong_lr,

Great model. You did a really good job capturing the difficult form of the building's midsection.

I shared in on my pinterest collection of great modernism models here: https://www.pinterest.com/tomalphin/lego-architecture-modern/

Thanks for sharing!

---tom