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Time-lapse: The making of two 98-foot-high metal horse heads

By Jesus Diaz Published April 10, 2014, 3:42 pm ET

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These are The Kelpies, an impressive monument in The Helix, a land transformation project in Scotland. The two metal horse heads stand 98 feet high. This time-lapse video—created “over 60 days of stop-motion filming across 7 months”—show how they were built.

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