A red door? Maybe I’ll build a “red light house!”
Why do Large Scale Modellers have such an aversion to simplicity. Building footprint = 144 square feet. Front Door with window 28 square feet or less.
Then, anyone anywhere in the US and other backward countries can built this building of any material in any scale with a proper sized front door.
In the rest of the world, folks will have to convert the measurements to metric, but that’s pretty easy and this level of planning.
I’ll get off my soapbox now.
Vic, I think your fingers slipped. A twenty four square foot building would be 12 feet long and two feet wide. I won’t fit in it! Or it would be a medium sized sauna at six feet by four feet.
Did you mean that the build should be twelve feet by twelve feet = 144 square feet to fifteen feet by fifteen feet = 165 square feet or any shape that does not exceed that area?
“I’m beginning to see the light!”
Dick, no one has said anything about the size of the window. Don’t go adding things at this late date. The requirement is for a “front door with a window.” No size is given nor required. And the building footprint only pertains to 1:24 proportions.
When does the challenge officially start? I’m wondering if I should stock up on parts now so that it doesn’t count towards the $30 limit (that’s what it was last year right?)… Or have we closed the shop already to supply hoarding?
I don’t think that has even been discussed. Has it?
Dick I thought it was pretty clear in the last part of my post, but I will try better here.
12"x12" =24’x24’@ 1/24 scale = 24’x24’ proportion thereof to whichever scale you choose.
I thought I had a building… 
It’s 640 sq " in 1/29. That means I would need a 16.5" square box… Original idea was based off a prototype building, with no selective compression. Back to the drawing board.
Edit: The original structure is 16’ x 40’. If I compress by 1’ on the short side, and 2’ on the long side to 15’ x 38’ I squeeze into the requirements barely… Now I have to make a choice. Compress by 3 square feet and not worry about it (I’m trying to avoid compressing structures) or pick a new building?
If you want to really keep it simple just have one requirement: 1 red door with a window.
It can be a doggy door; it can be a front door; it can be a barn door.
As long as it is red and has a window you have met the requirement.
No size specified.
No scale specified.
Build what you like; as long as it has a red door (with a window).
Vic Smith said:
Steve I am fine with those rules. Dick, in simple terms we have been given our max dimension: 24 feet square at whatever scale you chose, or proportion thereof, not exceeding the sq in area limit. 12" =24’ @ 1/24 scale, so 24’ x 24’ in your chosen scale or proportion thereof.
24 sq feet in scale correct? So a 24’ in 1/29 would be 9.9" sq or 98 square inches… Divide it out how you want… For example the building I first though of was 16’ x 40’ = 640 square feet in 1:1. Using my math skills I come up with a scale measurement of 6.6"x 16.52" in 1:1, this in turn translates into a total of 109 square inches. Thus it’s slightly over my size limit for 1:29 of 98 square inches since I’m modeling in a scale smaller than 1/24. It’s not that hard really to figure this stuff out with a calculator.
Bruce Chandler said:
If you want to really keep it simple just have one requirement: 1 red door with a window.
It can be a doggy door; it can be a front door; it can be a barn door.
As long as it is red and has a window you have met the requirement.
No size specified.
No scale specified.
Build what you like; as long as it has a red door (with a window).
I personally don’t like the red door idea. I like the 12"x12" rule. It forces you to think outside the box. Isn’t that the whole purpose of the challenge?
Vic Smith said:
Dick I thought it was pretty clear in the last part of my post, but I will try better here. 12"x12" =24’x24’@ 1/24 scale = 24’x24’ proportion thereof to whichever scale you choose.
Vic, I thought we had moved beyond the idea of the square building.
Bruce’s idea gets my vote. KISS. One red door with a window: whole, cracked, or vitamin enriched. Build what you like & put the door somewhere we can see it.
This takes the lid off the dimensional limits & associated debate altogether. Let’s move on.
Well, when you guys decide, let me know.
At this rate it might take until January for us to figure this all out… 
Well, since this was Dave Taylor’s idea in the first place, let’s appoint him a committee of one to come up with a plan.
All in favor say Aye.
Aye.
I aye
Aye.
Aye. Dave Taylor for president!
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Over… I go to work for a long day and come home to this… IT’S ALIVEEEEEE!
Since no one has heard from Sir Mik in a while… I sorta asked for it, didn’t I? I like the in-put, and I really like the door thing ( thanks Todd ).
My original thought for this challenge looks like it is in a fight for its life against of all things, a Common door ( whoda thunk ).