Hi friends. You know me: any project I start takes a very long time. Not because I choose difficult subjects but because I am easily distracted along the road by something else and turn to another thing without finishing the previous one... I finish everything, sooner or later, but this happens after many stop-and-restart... just like it happened for my Shuttle flight deck.
Perhaps the secret to finish something in a reasonable amount of time is to start only very tiny models...
This time I've found something ideal to fill the interval between BIG modelling sessions, a collection of micro-architectures that you can complete in few days.
But let's start from the beginning: I was visiting the Gradara Castle, the site where took place the sad story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini in 1284 (also described in famous italian poem "La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri) and, in the bookshop, I saw a little showcase with some very tiny cardboard castles. Nearby there were some postcards with the parts needed to build those models. Needless to say, I bought and built all of them. It was love at first sight. The publisher is an italian group of people who loves cardmodels and want to share the beauty of italian architecture with the rest of the world. Their models are on sale in the bookshops of the main tourist sites. In any site you can find the model depicting that site. On the publisher site (www.formacultura.it) I discovered their huge collection of italian monuments and decided to build every site I had the chance to visit in my life. At the cheap price of 2 euros per card I bought on their e-shop more than 30 models referring to my past travels in Bologna, Torino, Milano, Firenze, Roma, Venezia and so on... I want to build all of them and create a collection of italian monuments in cardboard.
As the models are very small (and this can make difficult to add some extra details) I decided to scan the postcards and enlarge them to A4 format. This way the final result is somewhat bigger and I can push my build to an higher level (e.g. cutting separately all the crenellations of a castle wall or the pinnacles and spires of a church).
I've already built several of them and I want to show you here what I've done so far. Anytime I'll complete another one I'll post updates here.
The first one was an obvious choice: my homeland symbol: San Marino castle "Guaita".
As I said the first thing is to scan the postcard and print it enlarged to A4.
My upgrades consisted in cutting the crenellations and, necessarily, lowering several floors (that were designed flush with top of the side walls).
This implied some modification of the textures to adapt to the new configuration.
The final result is very nice, although not completely close to the real one. Some grade of approximation is unavoidable with such a little 3d model.
Here you can appreciate the final size of the castle.
Perhaps the secret to finish something in a reasonable amount of time is to start only very tiny models...
This time I've found something ideal to fill the interval between BIG modelling sessions, a collection of micro-architectures that you can complete in few days.
But let's start from the beginning: I was visiting the Gradara Castle, the site where took place the sad story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini in 1284 (also described in famous italian poem "La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri) and, in the bookshop, I saw a little showcase with some very tiny cardboard castles. Nearby there were some postcards with the parts needed to build those models. Needless to say, I bought and built all of them. It was love at first sight. The publisher is an italian group of people who loves cardmodels and want to share the beauty of italian architecture with the rest of the world. Their models are on sale in the bookshops of the main tourist sites. In any site you can find the model depicting that site. On the publisher site (www.formacultura.it) I discovered their huge collection of italian monuments and decided to build every site I had the chance to visit in my life. At the cheap price of 2 euros per card I bought on their e-shop more than 30 models referring to my past travels in Bologna, Torino, Milano, Firenze, Roma, Venezia and so on... I want to build all of them and create a collection of italian monuments in cardboard.
As the models are very small (and this can make difficult to add some extra details) I decided to scan the postcards and enlarge them to A4 format. This way the final result is somewhat bigger and I can push my build to an higher level (e.g. cutting separately all the crenellations of a castle wall or the pinnacles and spires of a church).
I've already built several of them and I want to show you here what I've done so far. Anytime I'll complete another one I'll post updates here.
The first one was an obvious choice: my homeland symbol: San Marino castle "Guaita".
As I said the first thing is to scan the postcard and print it enlarged to A4.
My upgrades consisted in cutting the crenellations and, necessarily, lowering several floors (that were designed flush with top of the side walls).
This implied some modification of the textures to adapt to the new configuration.
The final result is very nice, although not completely close to the real one. Some grade of approximation is unavoidable with such a little 3d model.
Here you can appreciate the final size of the castle.
