Janitor John posted:pennytrains posted:Janitor John posted:pennytrains posted:Janitor John posted:Thanks Arnold! The kids and I had a great time building it for Christmas. The wife wasn't too thrilled about it taking up our entire living room, but once she saw the finished product she was on board
Tell her it could be "worse".
Building Disney Park layouts can get out of hand!
Penny, your layout is one of the major reasons I was inspired to try and do one of my own
Where can I find myself that awesome Small World paper model?
Like many of the structures on the layout (many, far from all) I made it myself to fit available space.
It's absolutely perfect! Where were you able to find such a perfect drawing of the Small world drawing to cut out???
Metasequoia, Pepapkura Designer and Photoshop.
First I made a minimal 3D model in Metasequoia:
By studying thousands of photographs of the real "kinetic sculpture":
Then I take my 3D Metasequoia model and open it with Pepakura Designer which allows me to turn a 3 dimensional model into 2D parts:
Then the parts went to Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0, which was what I was using at the time, in order to be turned into fully realized paper model parts:
Many of the details have depth the old fashioned way, by layering the parts or by gluing them to thicker stock before cutting. Others, like the triangular parts on the left, build as "boxes".
With a fair bit of hard work, it turns out like you want it to be:
Until those pesky Daleks show up in mid January to take your layout apart...
