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A work in progress - The Great Western Arcade

rovex

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It being too cold to be in the shed, I have spent the day playing with Sketchup.

 

Opposite the entrance to Snow Hill id the Great Western Arcade. It was built over the tunnel carrying the tracks from Moor Street to Snow Hill. Originally it had a very impressive facade but this fell victim to enemy action and was burnt out. Rather than restore it after the war it was demolished and for a long time the arcade was somewhat truncated.

 

A modern building now occupies the site but the original arcade exists behind this building - albeit with a more simplified roof.

 

I have decided that I would like to have the original building and so began my search for photographs etc. Surprisingly I've only found a very small handful of photographs.

 

This is progress to date. Still some more to do and the original carved stonework will have to be reproduced in Milliput, my Sketchup skills aren't up to it.

 

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Hi Rovex. A very impressive arcade, must have taken some time do that in Sketchup, even without the carved stonework!

 

Will you be 3D printing or handbuilding it?

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Thanks Mikkel

 

This was one days work - Its amazing how quickly you can knock something up. I haven't priced it up on Shapeways yet - it might be cost prohibitive. My inclination is to try printing it. It feels like cheating in a way, but when you consider the time saving. The rest of the building and the arcade behind would be plasticard.

 

I'm also considering drawing up some gothic windows, bays etc for city centre style buildings, the rest being plasticard. As well as the time saving there is also the issue of being able to produce lots of idential items which if made the old fashioned way would look anything but identical.

 

Dean

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Wow, that's quick work. I can certainly understand the printing - and the time saved can always be used for another modelling job. I don't belong to those who think we'll run out of modelling to do :-)

 

Gothic windows and bays, those could perhaps be of broader interest on shapeways...  

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That thought had occurred to me.

 

I know you can get laser cut windows from certain suppliers but to me they look distinctly flat, whereas with laser printing you can get more of a feeling of depth

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