Scaling model drawings: progress

In our last episode I described a simple method of producing a scale drawing from a photograph. Well, I'm here to say it works, and here's some work to show you.

Photo of building of interest:

Here's the scale I developed using the photo (actually a laser-printed copy a little larger than HO scale). Rough scan (pencil drawing) but you can see the main elements: the vertical line on the left is for dimensions from the print, and the next line over is the scaled (HO) dimensions.

The scale works very nicely. As you can see, I marked each line with the corresponding element in the drawing. One nice thing is that once you get a lot of dimensions put in, if you need one that's in-between two others, it's really easy to interpolate. If you need something between, say, points A and B, just go halfway between those lines on the scaled (right-hand) dimension line.

Here's the finished drawing:

The finished drawing (ink on paper, scanned and cleaned up) isn't perfect, but it's plenty close enough. It's difficult to get every detail just right, especially what an architect would call the "weight" (i.e., height or width) of certain elements, like horizontal or vertical bands. The next one should be even better.