My other projects aren’t finished, but I love a new challenge so I started converting the full-scale measurements of my next adventure, a garage, into 1:22.5 scale and then into real (full scale) inches. Now in my mind a 50-foot-long building didn’t seem too big until I sized it up in 1:22.5. I had to splice together two huge pieces of art paper together to make everything fit on a single page and when I was through, my simple garage looked like it would take up a scale city block. Not good.
Anyway, as much as I hated to do it, I knew I had to bring in Mr. Selective Compression, who suggested I reduce most dimensions except the overall height by 75 percent (making the walls too low would have reduced the space for the garage’s sign, which is an important visual element). After much figuring and stuff I got a more compact building that went from almost 27- inches-long to 20 in. That’s still big, but anything smaller and it wouldn’t look the same. Now I gotta go back to the real site to check out more details.
