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Building a 1:24 scale model of a San Francisco Cable Car

 History, Mechanics  No Responses »
May 072011
 
Building a 1:24 scale model of a San Francisco Cable Car

  This model San Francisco Cable Car was from a OcCre kit and is 1:24 scale. Fairly simple to put together, about the only painful bit during construction were the windows. First the window frames, to which the clear Styrene is attached, did not match the cutouts in the main body of the cable car. The frames we significantly small, which seemed to have been caused by the laser cutting of the wood basically being to high (excessive burning marks could be seen on the sheets). I would recommend inspecting this before buying if you can as I had to build shims to reduce the size of the window cutout and then file and trim everyone individually. The second problem with the windows was the effect of using CA Glue (Cyanoacrylate) in the model, first don’t use it to affix the Styrene to [Read More...]

Point Clouds and history: Maya Skies

 History  1 Response »
Nov 272009
 

Maya History Technology Point Clouds This is a fascinating video because of its implications to recording and exploring history. Laser scanners can be found in most construction survey organisations but this application to historical monuments and producing point clouds that then can be used to gain understanding of some of the science and culture of ancient civilizations. This is just fantastic in my view and would love to get my hands on some of the 3D models produced, the potential applications for this in education and learning are so just some many in my mind. I look forward to exploring some of the organizations mentioned. QUEST on KQED Public Media. Check out CyARK.org their quick tour is at http://archive.cyark.org/new-to-cyark#. This organization is effectively creating a 3D catalog of historical sites and you can view them by downloading a few simple plugins. The benefits to recording these [Read More...]