Referencing the recent thread on HardRock and His Majesty's collaboration to bring a Phase III Albacore to fruition, I got to thinking (which is never a good thing). This type of collaboration is really exciting to see, and it makes me wonder at what other opportunities there are for other kits if we break up the work into manageable bites between the membership here.
Based on time and talent, the construction of an entire model could be divided up between two or more people, resulting in a faster build with potentially higher quality than any one person could achieve on their own.
It would make for a really interesting test-project to pick a new boat (based on a poll, perhaps, for the subject), divide up the work, and then bring it all together for final assembly. People could volunteer for each work class based on time and talent. Some could have gigabytes of reference material to contribute. Some might be able to knock out a master pattern in days. Others could have mad CAD skills for 3D drafting master patterns. Yet another could have Photoshop wrapped up for the creation of artwork, hull markings, etc.
Work chunks could look like this:
-preliminary research (blueprints, reference photos, etc)
-hull master
-sail and control surface masters
-scribing
-decals/artwork
We could use http://www.nautilusdrydocks.com as the marketing platform and split margin between the contributing parties according to their time committed to the project.
If this is something that is interesting to the membership, we could start with suggestions from the group as to a subject and scale, then move on to a poll to select the final project from the list of suggestions.
Any thoughts from anyone else here?
Bob
Based on time and talent, the construction of an entire model could be divided up between two or more people, resulting in a faster build with potentially higher quality than any one person could achieve on their own.
It would make for a really interesting test-project to pick a new boat (based on a poll, perhaps, for the subject), divide up the work, and then bring it all together for final assembly. People could volunteer for each work class based on time and talent. Some could have gigabytes of reference material to contribute. Some might be able to knock out a master pattern in days. Others could have mad CAD skills for 3D drafting master patterns. Yet another could have Photoshop wrapped up for the creation of artwork, hull markings, etc.
Work chunks could look like this:
-preliminary research (blueprints, reference photos, etc)
-hull master
-sail and control surface masters
-scribing
-decals/artwork
We could use http://www.nautilusdrydocks.com as the marketing platform and split margin between the contributing parties according to their time committed to the project.
If this is something that is interesting to the membership, we could start with suggestions from the group as to a subject and scale, then move on to a poll to select the final project from the list of suggestions.
Any thoughts from anyone else here?
Bob
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