03-31-2012, 08:12 PM
I've been itching to try my hand at scratchbuilding something from wood. There's a building I see a lot that I think could make a neat little diorama:
![[Image: 6G6eu.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/6G6eu.jpg)
See, awesome isn't it.
Well the thing is that I don't know where to start. Yeah, I know that I need to track down windows and doors and draw up some plans. I don't plan on doing it perfectly to scale, but it measures out as pretty close to 40'x20' in Google Earth. I have pictures of all four sides and its literally a 30 minute walk away, round trip, so its not hard to reference.
The current sticking point for me is how to scale clapboard siding. I checked Northeast's site and the clapboards are by dimension not scale. So...yeah, there's question #1 right there
See, awesome isn't it.
Well the thing is that I don't know where to start. Yeah, I know that I need to track down windows and doors and draw up some plans. I don't plan on doing it perfectly to scale, but it measures out as pretty close to 40'x20' in Google Earth. I have pictures of all four sides and its literally a 30 minute walk away, round trip, so its not hard to reference.
The current sticking point for me is how to scale clapboard siding. I checked Northeast's site and the clapboards are by dimension not scale. So...yeah, there's question #1 right there