First Attempt

A while back I created a paper model of the chest based on my design plans – it was a bit crude but it was very reassuring to see my design as a real 3-D object and feel confident that it was correct. Now I’ve decided to dive in to the process of creating a more final version: in this first attempt I’ve used the same cut-out templates as I used for the paper chest, but I cut the parts from 1mm styrene sheet and miter-joined them with solvent glue and black CA. The resulting chest block feels reassuringly solid. However, after building the chest block I realized that there were some important differences between the templates I’d used for the paper chest and the current design plans: specifically, the paper chest block didn’t include the angled plane at the bottom of the back, and the upper planes of the back were the same parallel, upright surfaces from the initial design. This is unfortunate, as it means I must either hack-and-patch the newly created chest block to fix it, or else make a new one. At the moment I’m leaning toward the second option due to the numerous small changes that would need to be made to the existing part in order to correct it. Quite a blunder: but nonetheless the completion of this part gives me a nice feeling of progress in the project.