Postcard from Hervanta

"If I was home-bound this summer holiday... As I've promised the build heaps of stuff to the exhibit in autumn, a large collaboration work once in a long while, so no much time for travellin'. And the summer contests too, Bio-Cup and whatnot. In the autumn, after the work project is done and we've both graduated we can travel a good bit, check the churches and railway stations and banks. Volutes and mouldings and thingamajigs. Before that I can rest my brain in the homely neighbourhood landscapes. Ask youselves: How familiar are you with your home borough? And if you're not living in a city, how well do you know the clearings and mosses of your nearby forests? Hear me, Mikontalo once was the largest apartment building in the Nordic Countries; or that's what they tell the first-year students."

This was my entry to my LUG Palikkatakomo's Postcard contest last summer. The format is familiar from some recent promotional sets. This decipts my home district Hervanta of Tampere, with its 70s housing blocks, pine trees dwarfed by them and the relatively recent and convenient tram line. And there's my sigfig, too, as the rules states that "minifigure has walked into the landscape" or something (though minifigure was not actually required in it). The fig is of course huge, but the absurd effect quite worked so I left it be. In Hervanta a short man can stand tall.

This was built in one hour in August, in the middle of the busiest building spree for Pii Poo Helsinki event. I tied for the audience voting in Facebook but decided to hand the price to the other builder - I was informed on this when sitting in a cat cafe in Prague. 

I'm soon retreating for Christmas from my parts, but I have still some models scheluded for this year - including the last large architecture project that I shot and edited yesterday.

-Eero.