The Model Mine - Lightning Ridge Scale Model from the 1960s
In the late 1960s, a Lightning Ridge resident built a detailed scale model of Opal Street that's still on display. Let's check it out!
The Model Mine is on display at The Big Opal, on the Three Mile Road in Lightning Ridge.
Special thanks to Steve at The Big Opal.
I mentioned at the end of the YouTube video that I made an error somewhere in it. I’m not going to explain it here, but it relates to the building I labeled as “our gallery”, so feel free to analyse in further detail.
The Big Opal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBigOpal/
Other links:
Things to Make and Glue (my other YouTube channel), where I've documented the building of my Space Shuttle orbiter model: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyWP...
Build log for my Millennium Falcon model: https://www.colonpipe.com/builds/buil...
The Droste Effect on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_...
Lightning photography from Lightning Ridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-nO...
Google Maps coordinates for the part of Opal Street the model is based upon: https://www.google.com/maps/@-29.4296...