Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2018

Bata Headquarters (1/144 scale), Part 2

Pretty close! Back in Part 1 , I recounted a bit of the history of this lovely mid-century modern building, my relationship to it, my reasons for building this model, a link to my initial study model, and the first part of the build. This part continues the building process and has some beauty shots taken outdoors. Floating forest of blocks. I am extremely happy with how square and uniform all six of these tower blocks came out. Part of the beauty of this building was the various repeated shapes: the 38 oddly-shaped windows, the 13 posts with their complex tops, and these six tower blocks I never knew existed until I did research for this project. Rear (front) view. This shot is in full colour, but it looks like I've isolated the tower blocks and desaturated everything else. I still think of this as the "back," even though the rectangle cut out of the fourth tower is the main entrance. Skeletal. I love how the grey primer on the laser cut wo