Drawing on walls

With pictures as my guide, I drew out plans for the woodwork that would saturate the side walls of the room. After careful measurements and planning I proceeded to draw directly on the walls the patterns of where everything would go. At least I wouldn't just be gluing pieces of wood on the walls without knowing exactly where to put them.

Giving the arched windows a clean finish

After basic construction of the side walls I needed to fill in the inside surface of the window cutouts, which I wasn't sure how to do. However after some brainstorming I went and bought some very thin highly flexible wood strips and glued them along the edge of the windows which turned out perfectly! I was very pleased with the result.

Planning ensues!

Now that I had the floor pattern designed, I needed to start thinking about the big picture. First off I ordered the deck plans of the titanic on the web, and scanned/printed out the dining saloon floorplan. Seeing as how I'm not that good at math, it took me some time to come up with the correct dimensions for the alcove I was making. I took the overall dimensions of the room which I acquired from books, and figured out the area for my miniature. I've got a workbook full of diagrams, multi-colored lines and numbers from when I was trying to figure it all out... how thick to make the walls, how wide a space between windows (not easy just from pictures). But once I had the dimensions it was time to get to work on the physical project.