On my YouTube channel, I occasionally get asked about how long things take me, and how I go about planning a scratch build. So I'm going to make occasional posts here on the Chandwell thread to try to answer some of those questions. So my next build is based on The Midland hotel in Bradford which is a fascinating large building that can only be described as "higgeldy-pigeldy" - it has bits coming off it in at all angles and so many different parts to the roof that it's hard to fit it all into your head. I really want to represent this nature in low relief behind Chandwell's station. I've downloaded a copy of the hotel's architectural elevations from 1997 from the Bradford Council planning portal and I've arranged bits of three sides into one elevation that I am happy with. I've managed to identify 13 individual "boxes" that I can make out of card and arrange together into a cohesive whole. (I hope!). The roofs are going to be a real challenge - there are mansard elements abutting hips, and there are all kinds of different angles. And this is going to be low-relief which plays with the angles some more, as far as I can tell. Anyway - here is a picture of my current thinking, and my first paper mock-up of the first building. I am 7 and a quarter hours into the build so far, and that doesn't count the "thinking time" that I do when walking the dog, having a shower, etc.

Posted by Chandwell at 2021-05-30 08:13:26 UTC