Very well done on the current model. The floor plans online are mine and were created using tax records, a plot plan drawn before the sale, newspaper descriptions from the year it was built, and photos from many contributors. The plans are highly accurate in terms of external dimensions and door and window placement. The actual interiors of the home were not used on MPI and all the information on those rooms comes from other TV shows that filmed there and the 1933 newspaper articles.OMG_Germany wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:11 pmHello, I am the one who built the model of Pahonu in 1:100 scale. Hopefully I am sending this message in the correct place. I know that my model is certainly not a perfect representation of the real building, but the fans on Facebook at least recognized it as Robin's Nest. It was only supposed to be an architectural model, so no painting, tile roof, etc. If I understood Tedd Wilson correctly, you have already designed the house in AutoCAD or similar software? I plan in the future to rebuild it again in 1:64 scale, this time with wall paint, windows, doors and whatnot. I'm sure it will take a lot of effort and I don't know much about the materials. If you have already made the drawings in AutoCAD or similar, would it be possible to share them, for example as a dxf file? It would be very very helpful. I made my model from the floor plans and photos available online. Thank you very much and have a nice Sunday. Greetings, ArndPahonu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:44 pm That is a project after my own heart.
The massing looks very good, though I see a few minor mistakes. The placement of door and window openings has more problems. This is the view that most people are familiar with. I wonder about the other sides. It took years of sleuthing and the help of so many people on Magnum Mania for me to create the digital model accurately. In fact, that’s why I joined MM 15 plus years ago! I had basically reached the point seen here and needed help. I certainly got it.
I would contact him to offer any wanted assistance but for two reasons: I don’t have Facebook account, and it says comments are turned off.
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Unfortunately, there have been no historic blueprints published that I am aware of, so the precise interior wall placement is less accurate. All the rooms are correctly placed in general, and those seen in photos are properly dimensioned. However, several rooms have not been seen as far as I know, so details are less certain. The list of rooms never seen include the two downstairs bedroom suites, the middle of the three upstairs bedroom suites, and several service spaces, such as a sewing room, butler’s pantry, trunk room and service stairs, among others.
The living room, library and den/bar in the one-story ell have all been seen and are modeled correctly. Only the half bath in that part of the home has not been seen. In the main block, the two-story stair hall, dining room, two upstairs bedrooms, one sitting room, and one dressing room have been seen. In the service wing to the rear, the kitchen, laundry room, garage bays and the workshop at the end of the garage have all been seen.
I do not have AutCAD files. I used Google SketchUp to make both a 3D model and the floor plans. I can certainly share those files with you, but there may be a problem. I used the most recent downloadable version of SketchUp the last time I updated the model. They have since switched to an online version that is much more limited in model size. The end result is that my model is so large that it doesn’t view properly in the current online platform. I still have the downloaded version on my laptop and use that to view or modify it.
I can make the files available to you from the cloud if you provide me an email. You can PM that to me if you’d like. I’ve provided it to other forum members. Then it will be up to you to figure out how to view it unfortunately. Let me know what you would like to do, and I am excited to see your new model when you are done or any more photos of the current model.
Now if that person would be willing to come here to the forum and share their experiences, that should ask