[MOC] Paris Skyline

[Cecilie]

After building my Tokyo skyline, I was inspired to build another skyline, this time of Paris. Paris is a city I have visited many times, and it's a city with a lot of cultural heritage.

Paris skyline by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr

Choosing what to build for this skyline was not easy, as there are a lot of grandiose buildings to choose from in Paris. The Eiffel Tower is of course a given, but trying to keep the build from growing too wide, I landed on these 5 (left to right): Arc de Triomphe, Tour Eiffel, Dômes des Invalides, Notre-Dame, Colonne de Juillet (place de la Bastille).

The Eiffel Tower provided maybe the biggest challenge in this. Even if it's quite similar to the Tokyo Tower, it is also very different, so I couldn't just reuse the techniques I used there. Notre-Dame was also quite a challenge to make, and I obviously could not fit in the entire cathedral, so it is cut off in the back.
I also included parts of the Seine, as it passes right next to both the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame.

[carebear]

Great Build!!!

Love this!!!

Greetings

[WhiteFang]

Superb built. I love how you capture the essence and beauty of Paris in such a built. 

[Robert8]

Very well done

My fav is Notre Dame

But the whole thing is just  exquisite

Congratulations 

[Svendp]

Nicely done

[Slegengr]

Such a beautiful skyline, Cecilie!

Each micro build is well done with interesting parts usage!  The river helps in breaking up the base, as does the inclusion of grass and pavement.
The techniques for the Eiffel Tower make for a great micro build that looks realistic!  The micro trees are perfect here.

[t-brick]

Great! I thought about doing a Skyline of Paris too after the one of Munich, but I can't see how it could get any better than this! :-)

[The Architect]

Nice! Eiffel Tower looks awesome! 

[Herky]

I like this one a lot, it is basically ready to be boxed and shipped, TLG needs to visit this page and work with people like yourself, this is very cool.

And I just clicked on your Tokyo skyline, very nice as well, thanks for sharing these, basically perfect in my eyes.

[Cecilie]

Thank you so much everyone for all your nice comments

On 08/11/2016 at 7:09 AM, WhiteFang said:

Superb built. I love how you capture the essence and beauty of Paris in such a built. 

Thanks Fangy! I have a soft spot for Paris, so I really wanted to do it justice with my build

On 08/11/2016 at 2:50 PM, Slegengr said:

Such a beautiful skyline, Cecilie!

Each micro build is well done with interesting parts usage!  The river helps in breaking up the base, as does the inclusion of grass and pavement.
The techniques for the Eiffel Tower make for a great micro build that looks realistic!  The micro trees are perfect here.

Thank you Yes, with the buildings themselves having very "boring" colors (grey/tan), including some color in the base is important for the visuals. But I also felt that including the Seine was important is it's such an important part of Paris.

On 08/11/2016 at 6:48 PM, t-brick said:

Great! I thought about doing a Skyline of Paris too after the one of Munich, but I can't see how it could get any better than this! :-)

Well, thank you I'm sure it's always possible to do better Or you could try your hand at another city, there are many possible ones out there

On 10/11/2016 at 4:10 AM, Herky said:

I like this one a lot, it is basically ready to be boxed and shipped, TLG needs to visit this page and work with people like yourself, this is very cool.

And I just clicked on your Tokyo skyline, very nice as well, thanks for sharing these, basically perfect in my eyes.

Haha, well, TLG has some more rigid rules to what building techniques they allow in sets, and I can promise you that neither my Paris or my Tokyo skyline would pass But I do hope to see them tackle both Paris and Tokyo sometime in the future, it would be interesting to see how they would do it.