modelmaking/ scale modeling

[ChileanTaco]

I think everyone has imagination, it just manifests itself in different ways.

Absolutely! Imagination for cooking something fancy, for how to fix that fridge, for how to sew that coat in a way to make that obvious hole being gone, for how to find a new way to teach something, for how to find that software bug, for...
... not all of those things I can do well. I'd say: Imagination is most likely used for what somebody is good at, regardless what it is.

Working with wood requires imagination - you plan how the thing will look, what joinery joints can be used to make something.

Indeed it does.
Or a while ago I planned making an escape-proof lid for a hissing cockroach tank. Wanted metal, only have quite common tools around (ended up using a simple manual jigsaw to cut pieces), could not get some parts I might have liked. For sure it's not "artsy" (however, it now looks like it would be store-bought *), but took me some imagination to put that together and to think about how to make it escape-proof but not too annoying for us humans to use.
(I now really hope those critters stay in )

*partially also as the corner connectors I got read in quite big, obvious letters "MADE IN CHINA" *lol*
First found that ugly, now find it funny.

 

[NickAVD]

I agree to some extent. I find that being mechanical minded usually overrides imagination for me though. I can understand how things work with little effort. If someone else can build it, I can disassemble, rework, improve, repair, and explain the whys, but if I have to start from scratch without having seen a model or working example I struggle more.

I understand what you're talking about because I'm like that myself.
I have almost no creative imagination. I can come up with a technical solution, I can optimize an existing solution.
But as soon as it comes to the design or artistic design of some product - I pass.
I can do something in a creative way, but only if there are detailed instructions or something that I can repeat.

 

[xp29]

I understand what you're talking about because I'm like that myself.
I have almost no creative imagination. I can come up with a technical solution, I can optimize an existing solution.
But as soon as it comes to the design or artistic design of some product - I pass.
I can do something in a creative way, but only if there are detailed instructions or something that I can repeat.

Yup exactly

 

[ChileanTaco]

@NickAVD
I'm also not that person who would e.g. come up with a humorous speech (let me give a scientific talk, fine), take a dance class (oh help - for sure not!), create a theater play for kindergardeners to make them interested in astronomy (somebody at work does exactly that, great thing ), sew my own clothes according some fashion I'd imagine (I could fix mine so that I can avoid doing one of the things I hate: going shopping)... for sure not, but I'm (also) much more a technical mind. I also could not really think of me having a different job than a technical one.

But I'd nevertheless call this - coming up with a technical solution, optimizing it - creative imagination (or I just translate this slightly wrong): for me finding e.g. a clearly technical solution on how to overcome given computer memory limitations is some creative imagination.

 

[NickAVD]

@NickAVD
I'm also not that person who would e.g. come up with a humorous speech (let me give a scientific talk, fine), take a dance class (oh help - for sure not!), create a theater play for kindergardeners to make them interested in astronomy (somebody at work does exactly that, great thing ), sew my own clothes according some fashion I'd imagine (I could fix mine so that I can avoid doing one of the things I hate: going shopping)... for sure not, but I'm (also) much more a technical mind.

But I'd nevertheless call this - coming up with a technical solution, optimizing it - creative imagination (or I just translate this slightly wrong): for me finding e.g. a clearly technical solution on how to overcome given computer memory limitations is some creative imagination.

Yes, you wrote everything correctly. This is exactly what I meant when I wrote that imagination can manifest itself in different ways in different people. My imagination is also realized in analytical activities when developing server software, here we are similar.

 

[ChileanTaco]

My imagination is also realized in analytical activities when developing server software, here we are similar.

Yes, exactly this

 

[Sue E.]

Is here anybody into modelmaking/ scale modeling? If yes, what are you building?

I'm quite a lot (if I had more space, I would be even more ).
I like buidling: anything related to space, engineering, science, steampunk, cyberpunk.
I rarely start with a kit (did this once for the Eagle lander); usually I start on my own including parts found on flea markets, repurposed toys, trash.

Currently I'm working on a larger project: A cyberpunk diorama, made from mostly wood/MDF, parts from flea markets and parts found in the trash, damaged computer parts, plus some working electronic components. I purpose include things I got from different places all over the world (while living in different countries and traveling), plus want to give it a local "vibe" by incorporating items from here and making the building look inspired by buildings found here.
Started it a few months ago but had little time and had not all the electronic parts yet. Now I have more time (university starts into a long summer break of approx. 8 weeks which for me means I'm working now reduced and flexible hours (I do three hours early morning, three hours late at night and during the day I have time for other things... like crafts )).
That's how the diorama looks like now, and things that will be included like an antenna plus a drone landing pad built from trash found on the beach:

I built a lego hospital of my own design from scratch. Here it is:

 

[ChileanTaco]

This-is-cool Fits nicely to the other buildings - also your design?
I'm curious: Are these buildings from a particular real city/town?

 

[Sue E.]

This-is-cool Fits nicely to the other buildings - also your design?
I'm curious: Are these buildings from a particular real city/town?

The school and the conveniece store are mixes of lego kits and my own designs, the farm, campground and beach are my own as well. The city is fictitious, but the hospital is based on what a real hospital would look like inside given the limitation of lego pieces (Im a nurse lol). All the trees and water I built from scratch.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Love it very much

 

[Sue E.]

Love it very much

Thank you!

 

[Sue E.]

Here is how it looks like now.

This is the main building of the diorama. In addition, I have already built various smaller things that will be put together (e.g. on the roof, into the building and so on), of which I show just two here.

Antenna is not painted, obviously. Antenna was simple; I collect lots of parts and had those being a perfect match. Antenna dish is made from a cut-out sand toy scoop; center is the plastic stick often put in potted orchids; bottom part I don't know what it is.
Chair is made by myself. Person on the chair (this will be a "hacker" character with a bionic arm) is a modified poseable action figure (was quite hard to find one of a) the appropriate size, b) shaped like a realistic human, and not like a monster, anime character and so on how they often look like) from which I already cut away parts I don't want (figure was a soldier/fighter character, thus had weapons on a belt, a bandanna around the head and both arms were normal - so I cut and sanded that off, made one arm slimmer to later on attach metal parts), but haven't added anything yet (will make new realistic clothes, will add cyber devices to the head, will cover joints at the side that is not the bionic arm, will add metal parts to the arm that should look bionic).

Really cool!

 

[Sue E.]

@NickAVD
I'm also not that person who would e.g. come up with a humorous speech (let me give a scientific talk, fine), take a dance class (oh help - for sure not!), create a theater play for kindergardeners to make them interested in astronomy (somebody at work does exactly that, great thing ), sew my own clothes according some fashion I'd imagine (I could fix mine so that I can avoid doing one of the things I hate: going shopping)... for sure not, but I'm (also) much more a technical mind. I also could not really think of me having a different job than a technical one.

But I'd nevertheless call this - coming up with a technical solution, optimizing it - creative imagination (or I just translate this slightly wrong): for me finding e.g. a clearly technical solution on how to overcome given computer memory limitations is some creative imagination.

Thats ok, Id rather listen to a scientific talk than a humerous speech anyhow.

 

[Sue E.]

The school and the conveniece store are mixes of lego kits and my own designs, the farm, campground and beach are my own as well. The city is fictitious, but the hospital is based on what a real hospital would look like inside given the limitation of lego pieces (Im a nurse lol). All the trees and water I built from scratch.

The bait shop and the vehicles are NOT my design...just the scenery. The bait shop is from a very talented designer who sells his plans on bricklink and the tractor, boats and RVs are lego kits, just embellished a little by me to cover the exposed studs with plain lego tiles.

 

[xp29]

The school and the conveniece store are mixes of lego kits and my own designs, the farm, campground and beach are my own as well. The city is fictitious, but the hospital is based on what a real hospital would look like inside given the limitation of lego pieces (Im a nurse lol). All the trees and water I built from scratch.

Wow that's cool. I can't even begin to imagine how much time that took!