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MODELS

AND
MODEL

MAKING

By S. A. SHAW
Fig. I
Scale models may be divided roughly into two categories-the permanent
model which serves as a lasting record to represent an object that has been
destroyed or is at such a distance that it is not readily accessible. The second
is the temporary model used as a guide until the object thus represented is
completed in actual fact. Models for film making come under this latter cate-
gory up to the point that when they have been before the camera they are of
no· further use.
Of the materials which may be used in model work, paper and cardboard
prove to be the most advantageous; the modeller using pieces that vary from
the thickness of ordinary writing paper to that of i inch wall board. He lays
out and colours his elevations on a flat piece of card, securing speed and
accuracy; mouldings and other projections are reproduced by gluing together
different layers of card that overlap to give the proper shadow lines. Other
details may be rendered or constructed of the
many complimentary materials used to represent
all possible textures of the different materials that
go into any building.
Cut with a knife, the model is quickly and
neatly glued together. Where speed and mass
are the most important considerations, nearly all
detail is rendered with the colour brush, but where
the final appearance is being studied, detail is built;
all parts being carried out perfectly.
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WALL BOARD · Many local authorities have had models made
in connection with their future plans of deve.op-
ment and some of the ·more enterprising have llad
films made in which the model has played its part.
One such example is illustrated here (Fig. I) and
the present writer (not a professional model-maker)
had the job of making the model shown. In this
case the scale adopted was I / SOOth, it being
decided that this would be a•dequate to portray the
proposed scheme. This scale is too small to
attempt to apply delicate detail to the individual
FIG. 2
buildings; its primary purpose being to show the
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