Lotus Esprit... for the little man in your life
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Cool!!!!! It looks like the sides are flat. I don't know how to make the ends. Maybe they are flat surfaces as well, with details just drawn on. If I were going to make one, here's how I'd do it:
edited: Ooops: Didn't realize the name was someone who knows how to do it. Hope they're not offended. Maybe he has a better way. (sorry.)
How to scale up a picture by hand:
1. Use an overhead projector to project a slide of the car as big as you want it on to the wall.
2. Place sheet of ply-wood or mdf against the wall so that the photo is projected onto it.
3. Trace photo onto plywood.
4. Paint in lines and cut out using a saber saw (or some similar device). You will have to clamp it to a work bench to prevent play in the edges while you're cutting it out.
If you don't have an overhead projector (this is a bit harder):
1. Get a large picture of the side view of the car you like, or blow up a photo.
2. Draw grid lines on the photo in 1x1 inches (or whatever size grid you're comfortable sketching).
3. On plywood or a big mdf sheet, draw scaled-up gridlines. For example, if the car in the photo fits in a 5-inch tall by 10-inch wide box, scale the grid on the plywood sheet, such as 5 (10-inch boxes) tall by 10 (10-inch boxes) wide. Be sure that the scale up is square.
4. Draw what's in each box on the photo in the corresponding box of the plywood.
The idea with the scaling thing is that you won't get the distortion you would have doing it free hand. When you draw what's in one box on the photo onto the corresponding box on the plywood, you are only looking at the lines in the photo, and it's easier to keep things in the correct proportion. However, the bigger the scaling in the enlargement, the more error there is proportionatly from photo to drawing. I scaled a 6x6 inch drawing of the eastern hemisphere onto a 3 ft. round plywood, and my error was almost 1/8 inch x 1/8 inch owing to the thickness of my pencil lead. Still, if you're not good at drawing, you'll be surprised how much easier it is, and how close you get to the photo.
>> Edited by seafarer on Tuesday 19th April 21:44
>> Edited by seafarer on Tuesday 19th April 21:50
edited: Ooops: Didn't realize the name was someone who knows how to do it. Hope they're not offended. Maybe he has a better way. (sorry.)
How to scale up a picture by hand:
1. Use an overhead projector to project a slide of the car as big as you want it on to the wall.
2. Place sheet of ply-wood or mdf against the wall so that the photo is projected onto it.
3. Trace photo onto plywood.
4. Paint in lines and cut out using a saber saw (or some similar device). You will have to clamp it to a work bench to prevent play in the edges while you're cutting it out.
If you don't have an overhead projector (this is a bit harder):
1. Get a large picture of the side view of the car you like, or blow up a photo.
2. Draw grid lines on the photo in 1x1 inches (or whatever size grid you're comfortable sketching).
3. On plywood or a big mdf sheet, draw scaled-up gridlines. For example, if the car in the photo fits in a 5-inch tall by 10-inch wide box, scale the grid on the plywood sheet, such as 5 (10-inch boxes) tall by 10 (10-inch boxes) wide. Be sure that the scale up is square.
4. Draw what's in each box on the photo in the corresponding box of the plywood.
The idea with the scaling thing is that you won't get the distortion you would have doing it free hand. When you draw what's in one box on the photo onto the corresponding box on the plywood, you are only looking at the lines in the photo, and it's easier to keep things in the correct proportion. However, the bigger the scaling in the enlargement, the more error there is proportionatly from photo to drawing. I scaled a 6x6 inch drawing of the eastern hemisphere onto a 3 ft. round plywood, and my error was almost 1/8 inch x 1/8 inch owing to the thickness of my pencil lead. Still, if you're not good at drawing, you'll be surprised how much easier it is, and how close you get to the photo.
>> Edited by seafarer on Tuesday 19th April 21:44
>> Edited by seafarer on Tuesday 19th April 21:50
Good work 
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