Last week I was blogging on making the giraffe and about I was having trouble with its size. I worked on it for a while and finally came to the conclusion that it was just going to be too large for this project. I really could not even make the case for it being a baby giraffe. Its height was going to create a problem with how high the roof of the carousel would have to be to accommodate it. I finally decided that it was not right for this project.
I changed plans and decided to work on a tiger instead. I am finding that my reference material is giving me a problem. It also seems to be much larger than it should be. I am coming to the conclusion that the diagrams in the book may not be on scale to each other. A tiger is big, but it should not be bigger than a horse. So, I had to reduce the scale a little bit.
I am not the greatest at math, and the math for reducing this was a bit mind boggling. It was easier to reduce the size by switching to the metric system. I used online conversion tables to convert inches to millimeters. It was easier to divide using tens instead of eighths and sixteenths. Then I had to convert the reduced number back to inches to be able to get it onto the graph paper which is in quarter inch squares that have been marked off into one-inch squares. I think I might still be having some brain fog.
Once I had something I thought I could live with I transferred to drawing to the blue cardstock I am using for the foundation of the figures.
There are still a few differences I have to work through to get the figures to match up a little better.
I have just started cutting out the cardboard bracing pieces that I will use to attach the two sides of the figure together. I will have more on how the three-dimensional figure is put together in my next blog post. Check back next week (Monday or Tuesday) for the update.
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