Make Your Own Models
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Handbook of Model-making for Set Designers
The Handbook of Model-making for Set Designers describes the entire process of making scale models for stage sets, from the most basic cutting and assembling methods to more advanced skills, including painting, texturing and finishing techniques, and useful hints on presenting the completed model. Many drawings and colour photographs of the writer's own work illustrate the text. Some state-of-the-art computerized techniques are described here for the first time in a book of this kind, including many ways in which digital techniques can be used in combination with the more traditional methods to enhance the model-maker's work. This book will be of use not only to theatre designers, but to anyone with an interest in scale models of any kind. The book covers; tools and materials; painting and texturing; architectural models; people, trees and organic elements; moving parts; furniture and dressings. Superbly illustrated with 200 colour photographs and drawings.
Self-made construction machinery models
Models of construction machinery are the crowning glory of commercial vehicle modelling. Here not only the quality of the construction must be right, the models must also be designed to cope with sometimes heavy loads during operation. All the functions that excavators, caterpillars, wheel loaders and dumper in one model is another art in this field. But Kits and ready-made models are expensive and sometimes reach prices in the five-digit euro range. The alternative is do-it-yourself construction, which can also be achieved with modest means, as the author Walter Penka shows in this book. He has successfully built various types of construction and shows here his design and construction techniques. The examples of successfully functioning machines shown here enable those who want to build replicas to turn their ideas into reality. The dream of a functional construction machine model can thus become a reality. From the content: • Creating and reading drawings • Materials in model making • Tools and machines • Sheet metal working methods • Visual decoration and equipment • Building techniques - different models and their production • Volvo F12 (1:16) • Wheel loader SL26 (1:16) • Excavator Cat 225 (1:16) • Loader Cat 963B (1:14,5) • Multi Dumper (1:16) • Volvo F12 Tipper Tractor (1:87) • SL26 wheel loader in scale (1:87)
Modeling for All Scales
All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems. These sorts of models are usually based upon a mathematical foundation that can be difficult to manipulate especially for students. Modeling for All Scales uses object-oriented programming to erect and evaluate the efficacy of models of small, intermediate and large scale systems. Such models allow users to employ intuitively based symbols and a systems ecology approach. The authors have been leaders in the systems ecology community and have originated much of the scientific vocabulary of the field. After introducing modeling and its benefits, there is a series of chapters detailing the more particular elements of successful simulation. There follows another series of chapters, each devoted to models of different sorts of systems. Small scale models of growth, competition, and evolution give way, successively, to larger and larger scale models such as international trade and the global geobiosphere. Anyone interested in an easy to use approach to modeling complex systems authored by perhaps the most original systems ecologists of the century will want this book. To further enhance the users ability to apply the lessons of this book, there is included a CD-ROM disc which provides the fundamental tools for modeling at all scales.Key Features* The book makes it possible to teach modeling and simulation without much prior knowledge of mathematics* Reasons for modeling and simulation are discussed* The book makes modeling and simulation fun by keeping focused on simplified overview minimodels that have important principles to science and society* The steps in successive chapters are arranged so that readers can teach themselves modeling, simulation, and the programming necessary to simulate the systems they diagram* The CD-ROM has minimodel programs and versions of QuickBasic and EXTEND to run them