Dornbi

Depends on which picture you look at :) Here it's light gray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parlament_with_bus_on_Danube.jpg Here it's tan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Budapest_panorama01.jpg As said, my preference would have been light bluish gray. But probably it would look nice in tan as well.

To properly introduce myself: I am Dornbi. 36, Hungarian by nationality, Swiss by residence. As I kid I was mostly into Technic. I still have the history of large Technic cars on my blog: http://www.bricksngears.com/ I like: - Cars and aircraft mocs My favorite builders are Mad Phyiscist, LegoMonster and Nathanael Kuipers. I even rebuilt one of Mad Physicist creations, the Mercury Lead Sled. - Virtual building. I do most of my building in Lego Digital Designer but for rendering I use POV-Ray. - The Architecture series. The thing I am most proud of: - The MiG-15 that I have built for the Lego Military Build Competition 2011: I am also an invited author on Hungary's most popular lego blog: http://kockagyar.blog.hu

Thank you for all the responses! I plan to stick to the original design at this stage, it took quite an effort to build and photograph. caperberry, Jim, moctown: I considered using round pieces. The given piece is a bit too small and the larger ones did not look good in my experiments. I also like blocky designs. Ardelon: I think gray is closer to the original (in spite of the colors of the photo). The best fit would have been very light bluish gray but unfortunately the selection of parts was too limited. Or if there would have been a color halfway between tan and gray. I also considered using some tan pieces, but it made it look more complex and overwhelmed with colors.

Question: I have submitted my entry here. I have published it on my personal blog as well (with the same photos). Is it ok to publish the same photos with more text on a popular blog with several thousands viewers per day? (Great competition by the way!)

Thank you, looking forward to the Greek Parliament!

One of the iconic buildings of Budapest, the Hungarian Parliament Building stands by the Danube giving visitors a perfect view from the Castle Hill on the other side of the river. After Budapest was united from three cities in 1873, an international competition was held to establish a new, representative Parliament Building. Imre Steindl emerged as the victor. Construction was started in 1885 and the building was inaugurated on the 1000th anniversary of the country in 1896, and completed in 1904. During the communist regime a red star perched on the top of the dome, but was removed in 1990. The Hungarian Republic was declared from the balcony facing Lajos Kossuth Square on 23d October in 1989. I chose the Parliament because it has a distinct shape that is easy to recognize. The original building has plenty of small details. To keep it all in LEGO I would have had to build in at a much larger scale. Instead I opted to keep it simple and manageable: I wanted to keep the distinct shape of the building but simplify many of the details so that it can be built at a reasonable scale. Even so it is larger than the typical buildings from the Landmark series: 36 studs wide, 19 studs deep and built from about 660 bricks. More photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/bricksngears/ParliamentOfHungary02 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=500138 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Parliament_Building