Two more designs in my 1:500 scale series!
First is
Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, China. This one is a BEAST and took many iterations to get the look just right. The internal structure has Technic flex rods running through various points in order to keep the various sections (attached to one another by pins near their center of mass) in a consistent, even rotation. Then I used a combination of axles and connectors to keep each group of same-sized sections in their orientation relative to the base of the model. That took a long time to figure out as well...
And here is another build that took awhile to acquire pieces -
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE - but I have built this for real and it's 40" high! I've had this one designed for awhile but when I went to order parts, I discovered just how rare 2x2 and 2x4 double slopes were so I had to redesign it to utilize 1x2 30 degree slopes instead, which involved redoing the entire inner structure to provide ample connection points for all of them. In the end though, totally worth it.
I'll be sharing a time-lapse speed build of this one soon.
