Thank you guys, and you're welcome. It's my pleasure to share my ideas and techniques with everyone here. This wall took me the better part of 8 hours to complete, but I expect subsequent walls to go much faster.
Jon (Mill City) knows my background better than most here on the forum. I worked as an architectural model builder for a few years in my younger days. We were always looking for ways to save time.
This project was an exercise in pattern recognition, to the extent of what repeats. In this case the window pattern doesn't repeat, but the columns of brick between the windows do. Every time there is a window on adjacent floors, the piece between them is the same size. I took a bunch of the 3/4" and made a bundle with duct tape, then just chopped them to length. After that I just had to custom cut the other pieces. In hindsight, I suppose I could have counted the odd pieces , because some of them also repeated.
Perhaps the greatest thing since sliced bread is Google Earth. The fact that I was able to do this from the comfort of my home, still amazes me. It's only about a 25 minute drive over to the actual building, where I could take my own pictures, but why bother? Beside, I could never get that overhead angle and see everything so well from the ground.
Of course, if you want to do a building from somewhere far away, Google Earth may be your easiest option.
