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National Mall, West End, 1:1 Scale

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firehazard07's Avatar firehazard07
Level 30 : Artisan Lumberjack
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Using what construction info I could find, photos, and estimating unknown distances with Google Maps (as well as confirming unbelievably long distances), I reconstructed the Lincoln Memorial, Reflection Pond, WWII Memorial, and Washington Monument on theOrion Server (IP: orion.uk.to).

Started Lincoln Memorial: 5-7-2012
Finished Washington Monument: 5-16-2012

I started this project a long time ago, on a server far, far away... :P

When I first joined the Orion server, at around Beta 1.7, my second major build was the Lincoln Memorial made completely legit out of smooth stone (for the fun details of that build, see the project page for the Lincoln Memorial). After completing the Lincoln Memorial, complete with Lincoln statue, I started digging out the reflection pond. I remember getting about 60 blocks down before bad things happened.

If you were playing on a server around then, you can probably guess what happened. The world got corrupted and
everything was lost. :(

Almost an entire year later, I gained World Edit permissions on the server (which to my glee now has regular automated backups), and decided to rebuild my Lincoln Memorial to learn the WE commands (I went off planning drawings I'd made for the original, which sadly only included the cubic size of Lincoln, not how I'd sculpted him). It was so quick to build with WE, so I spent time messing with details until I copied it and moved it far away, to a desolate spot of ocean, and started working out from the Lincoln Memorial--for with the World Height update, I could finally build the Washington Monument 1:1.

The research was fun, and the shear length of the Reflection Pond, and the distance from the WWII Memorial to the Washington Monument is astonishing. Even with Optifine at it's most extreme settings I couldn't see one end of the pool from the other, or the Washington Monument from the WWII Memorial.

I look forward to finishing the project and making it open for exploration! (and possibly making a copy of it and Fallout 3-ing it up a bit :P )

In the meanwhile, if you come on the server and see me (Admin Amy), let me know if you want to check the project out as it is now and I'll /tp you there.

Edit: Added World save file, starting at the WWII Memorial.
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