A quick SketchUp study. I couldn’t replicate the design exactly as 1/8" is the thinnest Proofgrade wood I’ve got and every other member in the bench is thinner than 1/8" at 1:12 scale. But 1/8" is perfect for modeling 2X materials at 1:12.
And then across the street for a photoshoot at Green Lake. I also lasered a little man for scale. Should’ve cadded up a hipster, but Generic Cad Man will do.
I think with miniatures, the more precise the cuts and assembly, the harder it is to tell how small it is. This one is gorgeous! I’m guessing that the two colors for the cuts are so the tinier cuts can be done first. Right, Dan? Just checking my understanding of how the software works.
What I love is you can create at that scale with no splintering and the wood choice doesn’t show the grain pattern which makes the false perspective absolutely complete.
No good reason for the different colors. I’m just used to putting different elements on different layers (in AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) so I can deal with them differently. Unnecessary here as every line is a cut.
I have been using different colors for cuts so that the inner most cuts drop first.
If the material is thin and/or a bit warped it helps make subsequent cuts more accurate.
CORRECTION: I purposefully made the two cuts different colors so that the innermost cuts would drop first. I find it makes the subsequent cuts more accurate. @jkopel
A few years ago, I worked for a business that was destroyed by a Madoff-style CEO (he Madoff with $100K). I had to go through his e-mails after he left, and in one series of messages, his similarly vile wife was berating him for not having yet bought their three-year-old twins an $1,800 mid-century modern dollhouse she wanted. This post has demonstrated to me that maybe my next career should be using the Glowforge to make exquisite play furniture for such dollhouses, because this bench is truly worthy of an $1,800 setting. It also looks well-made enough to stand up to three-year-old twins.
excellent job