BasiltheBatLord
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Stretching Room scale model (Updated: 5/10/18)
- Thread starter NoiseAndSignal
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With the wallpaper in place, now it's time for the wooden shelf, upon which the gargoyles perch.
The gargoyle perches required some creativity with respect to actually cutting them. You can see the geometry of the shelf and perch here:
The gargoyle perches are elevated above the shelf, but the shelf also covers the entire bottom edge of the wallpapered wall, as is visible in a cross section:
Which means that each gargoyle perch has to be shaped like this:
And that's a bit of an odd shape to work with, in terms of woodcutting. I can simplify matters by planning to actually make the perch out of two pieces glued together (along the red line shown--one piece being the top half, with the edges trimmed, and one piece being the bottom half).
But that still meant I had to figure out how to cut several identical-to-the-millimeter copies of that particular pentagon shape. Every single one needed to be absolutely identical so that the edges would be flush when two of them are layered together to make a perch, and all the angles needed to be perfect so that the pieces would all fit together to form the shelf without any gaps.
Anyway, I did it with a lot of clamping and careful table sawing, resulting in a batch of them that were as identical as I could ask for.
Once they were assembled, installed, and stained (along with more of the moulding), I was glad to see they fit perfectly.
And next came the corbels. Lots, and lots, and lots of corbels.
42 of them, in fact, all cut individually from a strip of moulding using a miter saw. (If the omitted wall were included on the model, there would be all 48 corbels, as with the actual thing.)
So Disneyland's stretching rooms have 48 corbels beneath the shelf. (6 per wall.)
But how many do WDW's stretching rooms have? In fact they only have 40. (5 per wall.) (This is the only photo I could find that barely shows it. But it's indicated on the blueprints as well.)
And what about Disneyland Paris? They, just as interestingly, have only 32 corbels in their stretching rooms. (4 per wall.)
These are among a few subtle architectural differences between stretching rooms at different parks. Now you know how to identify which park a stretching room is from, only by a picture.
Also, in the future I may move these written updates to my website; possibly more on that later.
The gargoyle perches required some creativity with respect to actually cutting them. You can see the geometry of the shelf and perch here:
The gargoyle perches are elevated above the shelf, but the shelf also covers the entire bottom edge of the wallpapered wall, as is visible in a cross section:
Which means that each gargoyle perch has to be shaped like this:
And that's a bit of an odd shape to work with, in terms of woodcutting. I can simplify matters by planning to actually make the perch out of two pieces glued together (along the red line shown--one piece being the top half, with the edges trimmed, and one piece being the bottom half).
But that still meant I had to figure out how to cut several identical-to-the-millimeter copies of that particular pentagon shape. Every single one needed to be absolutely identical so that the edges would be flush when two of them are layered together to make a perch, and all the angles needed to be perfect so that the pieces would all fit together to form the shelf without any gaps.
Anyway, I did it with a lot of clamping and careful table sawing, resulting in a batch of them that were as identical as I could ask for.
Once they were assembled, installed, and stained (along with more of the moulding), I was glad to see they fit perfectly.
And next came the corbels. Lots, and lots, and lots of corbels.
42 of them, in fact, all cut individually from a strip of moulding using a miter saw. (If the omitted wall were included on the model, there would be all 48 corbels, as with the actual thing.)
So Disneyland's stretching rooms have 48 corbels beneath the shelf. (6 per wall.)
But how many do WDW's stretching rooms have? In fact they only have 40. (5 per wall.) (This is the only photo I could find that barely shows it. But it's indicated on the blueprints as well.)
And what about Disneyland Paris? They, just as interestingly, have only 32 corbels in their stretching rooms. (4 per wall.)
These are among a few subtle architectural differences between stretching rooms at different parks. Now you know how to identify which park a stretching room is from, only by a picture.
Also, in the future I may move these written updates to my website; possibly more on that later.
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truly bravo, @NoiseAndSignal
allow me to align with the others and
at your skill and will...
not surprising tho, considering hatbox
def following
godspeed!
allow me to align with the others and
at your skill and will... not surprising tho, considering hatbox
def following
godspeed!