Miniature Midtown Manhattan

Posted by fun-is-2-cool in May 5th, 2009

Published in Cool stuff

Artist Michael Chesko first caught the miniature bug while working as a software engineer for Motorola in the early 1980s. This scale miniature of Midtown took 2000 hours to end. As reference, he used blueprints, old photographs, digital reproductions, and satellite photos. On a good day, he’d work his way through four city blocks. The whole model is 36″ x 30″… a good deal lesser than most workplace desks. At the 1:3200 scale, the Empire State Building Chesko’s preferred skyscraper roughly reaches the dizzying height of a Campbell’s Soup can.