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Article: No small achievement
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
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- December 15, 2008
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Indianapolis-based Midwest Model Makers has found big success by making very small objects - specifically, detailed architectural models of everything from buildings to golf courses to weapons systems.
Its marquee achievement was unveiled this month at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C. On display since Dec. 2 is a 14-foot-tall, impeccably accurate re-creation of the U.S. Capitol Dome.
"I like to call that a legacy project," said Ed Watson, 45, the company's founder and president. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. An amazing experience, and humbling, too?'
Not to mention maddeningly complex. Tiny pieces of the project in the form of leftover bits of the building - ...