LEGO Sydney Opera House

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LEGO Sydney Opera House
LEGO Sydney Opera House

I’ve been wanting to build this model for many years and to give it my distinctive ‘cutaway’ style so you can see the richly detailed interior.
Over 2 years in the making this model represents one of the hardest shapes to construct out of LEGO bricks and has tormented me for years with failed attempts and half made prototypes.

Whilst not the most technically difficult LEGO model I have ever made (the Melbourne Star wheel and the Colosseum of Rome take that award!) I consider this perhaps my own personal Mt Everest of LEGO builds.

The model was designed in 2 specific sections, the base/interior and the ‘sails’. With the model being broken into 2 sections it allowed LEGO Master Builder Erik Varszegi and I to independently work on the model, with the main obstacle being that Erik lives and works in Enfield, Connecticut, USA and I in Melbourne, Australia.

So we decided that we would make the shell of this model digitally which is actually a much more difficulty prospect than just building. We would then have our geometry and key features aligned.
Once the shell was settled and bedded down, the physical constraints of the model are then added in (where the join would be for transport, and how the physical model would be supported throughout its structure, all the details, rooms etc).

I started building the physical model on Boxing Day 2013 and was finished some 19 days later on 14 January 2014. Overall the total hour count was 80 hours for Erik and 225 hours myself; a total of 38 working days to create.

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Taken on: January 16, 2014
Sets appears in:   • LEGO Sydney Opera House   
Groups appears in:   • LEGO    • AFOL 16+   
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