Tokyo Tower - detailed version - UHU - scale 1:400 - Page 7

**Texman** · #61 04-25-2020, 06:26 AM

That is coming along great Ruben! Your additions add immensely
to appearance of the base.

**Rubenandres77** · #62 05-04-2020, 12:23 PM

At 1:400 the lower body of the Tower stands at 32 cm (12.5 in).

The stairs/elevators shaft is not glued. It remains loosely supported inside the structure.
I decided to leave it like that to have some play in case corrections are needed when the legs of the tower are assembled to the base.

So far, 12.489 cuts have been made for the Tower and base.

Thanks for reading!
See you soon

**Rubenandres77** · #63 05-05-2020, 07:44 AM

There are two details that have bothered me a lot in the few days.

One, is the absence of the structural supports that go from the tower to the underside of the observatory.
They can be seen clearly here in this photo from Tokyo Tower | Old Tokyo

This other photo from the same site shows them even better:

They are simple diagonal supports that run from under the observatory to the body columns.

Surprisingly, UHU's kit does not provide any parts for them as you can see in the following photo of his original prototype:

Given the insane amount of detail UHU put in other parts of the Tower,
it is remarkable this supports were not modeled.

Even the smaller and simpler Canon kit has them.

I will attempt to recreate the supports by copying other parts of the Tower.

The other detail I don't like is this one:

In the rear part of the stairs shaft, just below the observation deck, there is a big white square.

Unfortunately I don't know if the real Tower has a huge glass pane there.
I have not been able to locate photos of that particular section and from that particular time (ca 1963).

I have the feeling (from one of the photos above) there should be some
railings or a service module where that white square is.

If left untouched, the white square will be very noticeable.
If cut out, there is really nothing to see but a red wall behind.
Besides, if cut out, the lack of columns and structural elements in that empty space would also be noticeable.

After so much work on this I don't want it to look as if I had missed something.

I will print a texture or two to camouflage that white square that is bothering me so much.

Next time we'll see how it all turns out.

**Rubenandres77** · #64 05-09-2020, 09:39 AM

The internal structure of the main observatory is well represented. I decided to detail it a little bit more.

The 2-storey service house on top of the observatory lacks gluing tabs. You need to make some yourself.
Despite that it turns out nice.

This is a very smart solution to attach the spire to the main body.

The spire will attach to this small base.
And it all will be glued to the floor of the observatory.
The 2-story structure on top will be seen once the observatory roof is closed.
As you can see I hat to reinforce it to ensure its stability after I hollowed the walls to make it closer to the original.

I wanted to have more detail to the observatory, so.....

There are 896 windows in the observatory.
X 4 = 3584 cuts for the windows alone.

And those are my new supports. A pity UHU decided not to include them.
They add a lot to the looks of the tower.

A birds-eye view of what has been done so far.

The tower has been married to the base.

What you see in this photo required 16.634 cuts.
(Not counting the small vehicles on the parking lot, nor the small details added on base of the legs.)

Final photo for today:

Thanks for reading!

**nikischutt** · #65 05-10-2020, 01:22 AM

Ruben, you're mad! This is an amazing build, I like the modifications too.

**Rubenandres77** · #66 05-20-2020, 09:46 AM

The square service structure inside the upper body of the tower and its stairs required 1989 cuts to complete.
18623 cuts so far.

Slowly advancing.
but I believe this project can be finished this year.

Thanks for reading.

**Texman** · #67 05-20-2020, 10:01 AM

While the work is impressive, I'm impressed your keeping count
of the number of cuts!

**Hi-Torque** · #68 05-20-2020, 10:10 AM

I visited the tower earlier this year. Maybe these pictures will be of interest to you. I closely followed UHU02 as he was designing and building this model years ago. I will to build it myself one day.

**Rubenandres77** · #69 05-24-2020, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hi-Torque

I visited the tower earlier this year. Maybe these pictures will be of interest to you. I closely followed UHU02 as he was designing and building this model years ago. I will to build it myself one day.

Those are very nice photos, thank you!
Of course they're interesting.

Your photos show good details of the Tower in its current state, and are very useful to see how much it has changed over the years when compared to UHU's model, which represents the tower in its first years.

**Rubenandres77** · #70 06-13-2020, 09:13 AM

The upper body of the tower is finished.

It contains the service shaft, and the 250m platform that would later become the Special observatory.

A close-up showing the intricate structure:

It is even taller than the lower portion itself.
And it doesn't have the spire and antenna yet. So it will be taller.

The above photo shows what has been done so far.
There are 20.885 cuts in that photo.

Thanks for reading.