Group Project

Myself and my group are in the fruits/vegetable category, as we all were tired of working with our object we decided to collectively pick something new.  We decided on the pumpkin.  It is appropriate for the time of the year and we thought we could have fun with it.  Here are some pictures which I found inspiration.  My assignment was to draft out the floor plan.  Here are some sketches and drafted images of our proposed floor plan.

Display-Final

Here are a few images of my final display model.  I ended up using a 3"=1'-0" scale. Overall I was satisfied with my final submission.  There were a few things I would have liked to work more on, which is always the case.  For the roofing I was pleased with how I got the chipboard to curve.  I was undecided on what material I wanted to use to wrap the chipboard with.  I made the decision to use black contact paper.  It worked extremely well with the smaller scale and with less curvature of the roof.  When I used a larger scale and the curve became more defined I encountered problems.  I went through a whole roll of the contact paper to find that it kind of didn't work.  As a last minute decision I chose to lay the paper over the chipboard without wrapping it as that looked the best of all the other alternatives. 

Above you can see some aerial shots of the roofing.  I made twelve miniature bok choys out of clay.  I used left over pieces of basswood to make little signs to lean against the Pagoda.  The purple and gold one is just a couple of Chinese symbols.  The black and red one has some Chinese symbols as well the word eat in English.  The one at the bottom just says bok choy. All in all I like the display, but every project I think I am progressing and there is always room for further improvement.