Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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I recently obtained the Piroux Guggenheim-Bilbao model from Diderick A. den Bakker's store: - Zeist Bouwplaten - Import, verkoop, ontwerp en productie van papieren schaalmodellen, maquettes en bouwplaten (cardmodels), Modelbouw, Rietveld cutoutmodels

Since then found a couple of threads on this site that reference this model:
papermodelfan's: Bilbao Guggenheim Museum - minified
mikbew's: Guggenehiem Bilbao

This will be my attempt...

This is a beautifully printed model with metallic-like parts. The parts have a lot of complex curves, making the model a challenge.

The model is very large and I prefer small sizes. So my first step was to scan the model and reduce the size. The original base is approximately 33x50 cm (13x20 inches), which with lots of work I reduced to approximately 15x23 cm (6x9 inches)

Since the pages were too large to fit my scanner, I cut the model pieces out before scanning. That was simple enough; however, I also had to slice the base into four pieces as I could not get acceptable scans unless the pieces could lay perfectly flat in my little scanner. That meant I had to stitch the base-piece scans back together into one image. The original map was folded, which left some damage; however, it was easy enough to repair this damage in the scanned/stitched base image.

The model instructions divide the built into 5 sections. The pictures below show a before/after comparison of the scan/reduce/stitch process, and the pieces and the model state at the end of the first section.

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Here are some pictures of the rest of the build process.

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Some pictures of the completed model.

[Doubting Thomas]

Came out well. good job. Seems like more time spent on shrinking the parts than the actual assembly.


Jeff