I'm considering a new game board project that might finally answer the age old question "Is Allen out of his mind?"
A while ago I built a model of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice building that resides at the intersection of Haifa St and Nasir St. in downtown Baghdad. If I don't say so myself, it's a pretty impressive model. I also noticed that the building across the street, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is a mirror image of the same building with the exception of a bit of the "tail" cut off. So making that building would be a piece of cake since I have the MoJ building already designed in CAD ... just mirror the drawing and chop off the bit that's missing on the other building. Once I thought about doing this second building, I got the crazy idea of doing a set of game boards around the area where these buildings live. I figured out that I could do four boards at 20" x 20" (my standard board size) and take in this area very nicely. I'll have to think about this ... these two buildings would the centerpiece of the project, but there would also need to be a few hundred smaller buildings around the neighborhood,,, and that's where the real work would be.
The first photo shows the area being considered, shown in 4 20" x 20" boards. The next two show my existing Iraqi MoJ building model.
As always, full size images are on my blog.
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I love this stuff.
