Avanti posted:The high point of my childhood was the 1964-65 New Your World's Fair. I can't describe how big a deal it was for me at the time. I had this beautiful Hermann Bollmann rendering of the Fair on my wall (I have it still).
My dream has always been to model the fair as per this map (complete with the LIRR station and yard). As a kid, I lacked the skill, and I probably still do. However, now that we have SLA printers, I am reconsidering the project. It would still be an immense effort, but made quite a bit easier by the fact that CAD models of many of the structures are already available. (There is a vibrant community of Worlds Fair enthusiasts, and there have been several "Back to the Fair" projects working toward the dream of a Virtual Reality model of the entire fair. Wouldn't that be something?)
That would be amazing, Pete. I spent quite a few days/nights at the Fair as a kid and it was amazing. But I did look on line and found that the Fair covered 646 acres - at 1/48th scale you would still need 13 acres!!! But I’d love to see some of the individual buildings/structures... the Unisphere, Hall of Science, the US pavilion, the Vatican pavilion (you’d have to include an O-scale copy of Michelangelo’s Pietà), the Port Authority, New York State... several of those still exist.
