Now the fun part begins, because I get to take the pieces and glue them together, slowly but surely the building starts taking shape and what has been up to this point only images on a screen becomes a structure.
Here is the ground floor columns, this is the first thing I made, and as you can see these were the pieces where I didn't account for the wood thickness and the fact that the pieces were at an angle. This oversight lead to some untidy corners and gaps. However it's good that this happen now, because these columns won't be visible much and now I won't make the same mistake for the corners that will be visible. You learn from your mistake and so I did.
Here is the second level with the corridors to the rooms. On these pictures the top corridors have that W structure on top, by the end that was removed, because in the original design that is not present. As you can see with the picture on the left I've completely lost it with the glue gun. I have to admit having a gun that shoots glue kind of transports you into another world where model making is no longer a priority or a cool thing but shooting glue is. I would go onto regretting this deeply because it looks disgusting, and trying to remove it leads to taking a lot of the wood of so that was out of the question. So now I'm left with huge unnecessary blobs of glue. This time around the mistake is slightly worst because these corridors are on show when the rooms are taken out, however when the model has all the rooms in it you can't so that's a plus.
Once again I went back to the paper, to mock up the next stage of my model. The idea for the model since the start was to have the outside walls all form a square that would fit on the outside that could be taken on and off. So this was it and I decided to do it in paper to get the measurements as they would not be the same as the actual Sketchup model, they would have to be a bit larger. However when sliding it on and of I did realise that this idea would not be possible as I have the open panels on the ground floor and these would stop the outside from sliding off. So that idea was no longer a thing.
At the time of writing this my model is completed and that allows me to see what I could of done differently, and an example is this sliding outer walls. I could have just had the panels be glued to the floor itself and not the square that slides off, and that would have allowed it to be taken off. Again I did not think of that at the time, but looking at my finished model I do not know whether it would have been a good idea to have at all. I just wished I had thought about that in the moment and not abandoned the idea as soon as a problem arose. Because at the end of the day this is about problem solving and so I should have done that, tried at least.
As it usually goes as well in all my other projects I forget to take photos of the process and I'm afraid that was again the case. The progress photos stop here. It's been quite amazing just how much I have failed to document my process all year long, talking about it at the start of every project and not having done it fully a single time. I would say I'll make sure to do better next time, but at this point I'll just mark it with hope.
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