A Bridge rebuilt
After gathering dust on my shelf for some time I finally decided to redo my Lego Brooklyn Bridge. I decided the redesign was darmatic enough to warrant it's own topic.
If you are interested here is a link to the previous version which I would now merely call a sketch for the new bridge.
This project started out of my love for the iconic Bridge. Altough I am from Austria and have not set foot on the actual Brooklyn Bridge (yet) I developed a serious fascination for the iconic landmark after reading the book "The Great Bridge" .
After countless passes of revisions on the original brickbuilt model and even more versions of the Bridge in LDD, I finally arrived at what I consider to be the ultimate rendition of New York City's oldest suspensionbridge in a scale that makes it a great model for displaypurposes. I bhave the bridge built in real bricks, but I'm still working on a light-setup that let#s me take prober pictures of the model. But a picture says mor than a thousand words, so without further ado...
Some details about the model:
Scale: 1/650
Length: 85 studs
Height: 13 bricks 2 plates
Width: 5 studs
Pieces used: ~850
For some more Information you can check out the Cuusoo-page I made for the model:
http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/690
Edit 02/02/2014: Added photo: towerexploded