Recall that once I had struck out on what for me was a bold project: Scratch building a girder bridge with no prior experience and very little reference material. Well, one of those constraints has changed: I now have a delicious wealth of reference material to work from.
The Google Maps Street View van drove directly under this bridge, taking a series of very detailed images of the understructure. Indeed, they drove right through the parking lot adjacent to the area of Akihabara Station that I am modeling, giving me quite a bit of new street-level detail I hadn’t had before.
This new source material, unfortunately, renders the plans I had drawn up in previous posts inaccurate. They were close! But not close enough for my tastes. This is worth doing right. That said, I’m pretty excited about the project still, but because my modeling time is given over to Shogatsu, it’ll have to wait until the winter.