jonmac writes:
>Friends
>
>Please tell me - is it really worth it? I spent an intriguing half hour
>today in
>the depths of the Gaydon Archives looking at a detailed site plan of the
>former factory which was drawn to scale between 1971 and 74.
>I'm beginning to sense the beginnings of Seasonal Affective
>Disorder - in other words, in less than six months it'll be b*****y
>Christmas all over again and I need a distraction to while away the winter
>evenings - apart from occasional posts to this august band of fellows.
>Anyway,
>with the site plan firmly gripped in my hand, I then found myself at a
jumbo
>photocopier (usually reserved for engineering drawings) and bingo, another
>copy was in my other hand.
>What's the purpose? Nothing really except that it seems a marginally good
>idea (AT THE MOMENT) to make a relief model of what I presently have on
>>paper. What ideas does anyone have for suitable materials (apart from
balsa,
>card and styrene) and is it really worth trying to compress 125 acres of
>land area onto a board measuring about 3 x 2
>feet?
How about a community project. Various volunteers form the list could
fabricate the various buildings, car parks, trees, oil spills, etc and you
can incorporate them into the diarama. What a way to build comraderie.
Just a thought. I'll go back into my corner now.
>This is the size of the drawing currently in my possession. I
>certainly don't plan to have a larger board because the drawing is
perfectly
>OK detailwise in its current size and in describing what function was
>performed where. Moreover, when its finished - where am I going to put it?
I understand Joe Curry has a nice tent in Arizona. ;-)
>Polite suggestions will be welcomed, I can imagine a few of the others
>without any help, thanks. If any UK listers can propose suitable book
titles
>on micro-modelling, I'd be more than a little grateful - together with the
>telephone number of a recommended shrink.
It could be worse. You could be retired! 8->
>John Mac
>
>Book 1: http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/triumphbook
>Book 2: http://www.toolbox.ndirect.co.uk/crocus
Dave Massey
St. Louis, MO USA
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