Tai'an artist designs miniature models to celebrate Winter Olympics

Shan Yishuai of Tai'an, East China's Shandong province, produced a collection of ice and snow miniature landscape models to rebuild the commemorative landscapes with Chinese athletes in previous Winter Olympics.

The length and width of the landscape model are 2.1 meters and 1.1 meters respectively. It was made from foam, plaster, iron plate, and resin by 3D printing.

The models include a bird's nest, high-speed railroads, and other Winter Olympic elements such as an ice rink and scenes of Chinese athletes competing in previous Winter Olympics.

"I extremely want to express my admiration and blessings to Chinese athletes through these miniature landscape models," said Shan.

Shan also added that the design began in late November of last year and ended on Jan 19 of this year. It took 56 days in total.