We had a mini meeting after a Venture Run to talk about visual ballance, clutter, and the layout of the major sturcutres
"Ok We had a mini meeting last Saturday, Chad, Kevin, Tony, and me.
We talked about the FPK's hover truck dio/vignette. And Tony is now in charge of visual balance.
I couldn't see a difference with the hover truck dio and that big vignette/dio from fine scale, on some bombed out German Tank factory, that soldiers were still fighting over in.
But anyways Tony is of the opinion that we should all work on our mechs first get them ready then we can work out how the immediate figures will interact with the mech, and then how the mech will interact with the display.
We then talked about layout. I talked shortly with Dave Hodges Monday after Wonderfest and asked how they would display a very large group project, and that this project would work best with 360 degree viewing. He said we could email them size and work out where and how it would be displayed. Also we would probably be down in the overflow room. So I told Tony we should work under the presumption that we can get two 4X6 foot tables pushed together along their length.
I mentioned to Tony that we need to talk/work out what the elevators in the floor will be so I can make sure I have those panels ready. Also I mentioned the pop up railing idea, that is for the 2 or 3 elevators in a bay or garage floor that are not down/bring something up. We can have scribed into the base shapes around the parameter of the elevator, then for elevator's that are in use these shapes become railings that pop up when the elevator is activated, this insures that railing isn't in the way when the elevator isn't in use, and that if something is standing on an elevator and the railings can't rise the elevator will not activate (safety feature).
Well onto the main concern:
We sketched both the traditional table arrangement then another based on the optimum display setup:"
A Table perpendicular (long edge sticks out from the wall) to the wall with the model set length wise.
The table set parallel to the wall (long edge flush agains the wall).
In both cases the face of the doors are hidden from view.