Alan,
I have to tell you how much I've enjoyed following along with your Empire State Building project over the past year or so in the OGR mag. The "finished" result is unbelievable! I put "finished" in quotes as I am looking forward to the installment you teased about, the painting of it.
I have a few questions:
The first is how do you plan to incorporate it into a layout, if that is your plan. Even on the floor, most train rooms don't have ceilings high enough to handle its 8 foot height).
That brings me to my next question. If you have a personal layout, I don't ever recall seeing anything about it on the Forum. If you don't, is the plan to put it on an OGR layout? Gee, I'd really like to see articles about either of these, if they exist.
Lastly, the obvious question (at least for me) is do you plan on putting King Kong on top?