Today’s adventure included an early morning regional meeting, an exposition floor race, model building techniques, design interviews, and much more.

What I found to be fascinating was the model building seminar entitled “Quick and Dirty Model Building.” The presenter Paul Shortt showed us many of his models, and explained how quick and cheap materials can be used to create simple, effective, and gorgeous models for the scenic designer. His materials of choice, plain paper and hot glue. He described how hot glue can be cleaned up with a soldering iron to create sculptures and clean adhesions. In my opinion, his best example was a flown tree flat model piece, composed almost entirely of hot glue, with paper backing and piano wire reinforcement. He had lots of little tips to improve models. For cleaning tweezers, one can use lighter fluid. Just make sure that those particular tweezers are not used for soldering…

Additionally, on the exposition floor I managed to find the Vectorworks booth. However, today their booth was incredible packed, and for the types of questions I had, was bad time to ask them. Tomorrow it’s a personal mission.