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Activity 3 as your first modelling activity
we're going to make this simple chair form,
a scale model of a chair.
You need a corn flake packet
or some sort of thin cardboard box to use as a raw material
and I've redrawn the figure that appears in your modelling workbook
on the inside of the cardboard box.
But an easier way of doing this would be to take a photocopy of the page.
I've done a photocopy of my drawing
but you could take a photocopy from the image in the workbook.
Then stick it down onto the cardboard simply like that
either using some sort of simple paper adhesive
or an aerosol glue.
But I've redrawn it onto the card
so it's a simple case then of cutting out the shapes from the cardboard.
Try and cut carefully to your lines.
And you want to end up with three rectangular shapes,
exactly like the three in the workbook.
We have two sides and we have the seat and back.
Now to get this to fold I need to score it
and to score it I'm going to use my scissors
and I'm going to use a safety rule.
I put that onto the line that I've already drawn
and draw that across like that.
Then this will fold to give me a seat and back.
So I want to now attach the seat and back to the side.
So we've got the line that indicates where it's going to go to.
Simply hold that in place there with a piece of cellotape.
And simply wrap that around like that.
Another piece for the junction of the back rest and the arm.
Trying to get it as close as I can to the back.
And you simply repeat that procedure for the other side of the arm.
And here's the one I've made earlier.
You can see there are four bits of cellotape holding that together
and we've got our scale model of a very simple flat-pack chair.
Don't throw that away. We're going to use that again
in one of the sketching activities later in the workbook.