12-03-2010, 06:12 AM
Thanks! I am looking forward to this one. It's a challenge, but I will take my time so please be patient ;-)
first I'll take a careful study of the drawing, to see how thick all walls are, as just sheet styrene is probably not going to do it. I'm playing with the idea of hydrocal, making templates first, and then pour them so to speak. Anyway, the jury is out on that one. As mentioned, study the plans first. As for the drawing, I do think this one is one that was 'edited' at some point. The original building from the early 1900's was 'refurbished' in 1986, and that's what these drawings are from. Although it's not a color scan, the red pen could very well have been used. 1986 did not see a wide spread use of CAD yet, it was coming, but not quite mainstream yet.
Koos
first I'll take a careful study of the drawing, to see how thick all walls are, as just sheet styrene is probably not going to do it. I'm playing with the idea of hydrocal, making templates first, and then pour them so to speak. Anyway, the jury is out on that one. As mentioned, study the plans first. As for the drawing, I do think this one is one that was 'edited' at some point. The original building from the early 1900's was 'refurbished' in 1986, and that's what these drawings are from. Although it's not a color scan, the red pen could very well have been used. 1986 did not see a wide spread use of CAD yet, it was coming, but not quite mainstream yet.
Koos
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