eggeadnurse

Just finished this set this morning - my third Architecture Set after U.S. Capitol, Imperial Hotel and Buckingham Palace. It has now replaced the Capitol as my favourite looking Architecture Set and Buckingham Palace as my favourite Architecture build. Some really nice techniques especially on the tower - during the build there were aspects of the tower that seemed weird (the yellow 1x2 plate w/ stick that was 'randomly' place inside the building) but all made sense in the end (allowing a 1x1 plate w/holder to secure the central window block into the gap that had been left. After a complex build utilising man new (to me) techniques i found the tower facade (made up varying sized brick-yellow plates covered with 1x1 brick-yellow flat tiles) quite therapeutic. Only had one issue (my fault) attaching one of the curves on the third level (left side of rotunda as you look at it) which I placed 1 stud too far back but when I removed it I inadvertently (and unknowingly) removed a white 1x4 plate with it which prevented me from placing in the correct position and necessitated much building-rebuilding until my error was noted.Another issues was my lack of ability initially to find the olive green, flat 1x1 tile (round) - there is only one in the entire build - but as it was to be located at an accessible are of the complete build I carried with the build until it reared its head later on and was affixed with a little bit of dexterity. Overall took about 2 to 2 and a half hours to complete - keeping most pieces in their respective bags, apart from a couple of the larger bags with a high piece counts into the box for easy searching.