The Transparent Car

https://me.jhu.edu/thwang/notes/Scaling-II.pdf This modelling took less than 1 hour using the same tools as the paper model. Thinking and printing took much longer. Yesterday, I went looking for printers of A0 plans. Not many in Kota Kinabalu. One shop, Kinabalu Printing Shop or Page 8 at Kingfisher, Likas, keep on cropping up. It charges RM 9 for printing, but when asked, also RM 9 for copying. Bormas charges RM 6 for printing, RM 3 when I asked them. I went to Bormas at Jalan Gaya but it iturned out it cannot print, only photocopy. They recommend 21 Printing but it quotes RM 25 for printing and photocopying. So I went to Page 8 to print. It took less than 15 minutes but I took a coffee break. Went back to Bormas to photocopy. The printed plans are not exactly 1/10 scale. 44.2 cm for 4.5 m actual. I used the polystyrene sheet as a base to bend the aluminium sheets. That polystyrene was more than 5 years in my office because I wanted to model aeroplanes. I also have a one foot alum...

Cut from an A4 paper at 1/38 th scale. All determined by the addon for Blender. To get to 1/10 th scale, you need A0 paper, 1.2 m x 0.84 m.

These furnitures are made from 10 mm thick glass. Imagine them being made from 10 mm thick Acrylic. Acrylic is 12 times stronger than glass in shatter resistance. Glass could be more scratch and heat resistant compared to Acrylic so is better for furnitures.