The Handbook of Model-making for Set Designers

by Winslow, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781847970190
• ISBN10: 1847970192
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-26
• Publisher: The Crowood Press

Summary

The Handbook of Model-making for Set Designers describes the entire process of making scale models for stage sets, from the most basic cutting and assembling methods to more advanced skills, including painting, texturing and finishing techniques, and useful hints on presenting the completed model. Many drawings and colour photographs of the writer's own work illustrate the text, and the book is packed with helpful hints gleaned from his experience of designing and model-making, and teaching these skills. Some state-of-the-art computerized techniques are described here for the first time in a book of this kind, including many ways in which digital techniques can be used in combination with the more traditional methods to enhance the model-maker's work. It is a book that will be of use not only to theatre designers, but to anyone with an interest in scale models of any kind. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Colin Winslow works as a theater professor. He is the author of The Handbook of Set Design and the coauthor of Pantomime.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Various Types of Set Model	p. 17
Tools and Materials	p. 29
Basic Techniques	p. 49
Architectural Techniques	p. 75
Painting and Texturing	p. 91
Furniture and Dressings	p. 103
Flown Scenery and Moving Parts	p. 113
People, Trees and Other Organic Elements	p. 121
Digital Techniques	p. 129
Displaying and Presenting the Model	p. 147
Constructing a Set Model Step by Step	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 174
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