Man of La Mancha

The model went through several incarnations. We used various materials including wood, cardboard, Styrofoam, MDF. Most of the materials were cut on our band saw. bigmodel.jpg (29234 bytes)modelgp.jpg (27752 bytes)
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Our fearless Co-Technical Director, Kat, is working on the shop drawings for the legs of the platforms.

Alex, our other Co-TD, & Kat working on the drawbridge/stair unit 

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Platforming. This was a very big set. The upper level platforms were 12 feet up. We assembled them on their sides and then walked them up. Before walking them up, we did add plenty of cross bracing. lamanplat2.jpg (23150 bytes) lamanplat.jpg (26253 bytes) lamanplat1.jpg (22886 bytes) upperlvl2.jpg (35384 bytes)

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stairsariel.jpg (19193 bytes) ltgelecs.jpg (32265 bytes) muslin.jpg (22284 bytes) rake.jpg (28632 bytes) rakecrw2.jpg (38437 bytes) rakecrw.jpg (21503 bytes)  sidevw.jpg (19026 bytes)