"Back to the Future" Courthouse Square: Building A Replica...

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OK, so here's my first hand-drawn blueprint, for Holt's Diner at full scale. I'll be copying this with the measurements reduced to one-sixth, before building anything practical.

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Hey, everybody. I know its been a very long time since I updated this, but it stalled out when I couldn't find a full set of high-quality blueprints. Well, God changed that recently, when I wound up contacting Bob Gale's agent through several different attempts. I told her of my plan to build the 1955 courthouse square...and within a day, she sent me the blueprints, with one rule attached: I could not profit from anything I made, without a license from Universal. Some of the plans were in the file shmartybird had sent me...but they're much bigger and more clear overall. A few web-sized photos were included too, but I couldn't make anything out of them.

So, the next step is re-drawing the plans so I can see them better up close...and then after that, maybe a cardboard or FoamCore mockup. Its still a long way until completion, but I'd like to finish it by the 35th anniversary.
 
I think you should consider going to a smaller scale. Building such a large scale replica of that set could only fit inside a basketball court! Anyways....good luck!
I've thought of starting smaller, but I really want to end up with a 1/6-scaled model, that I can break apart into pieces and store in boxes. Ideally, most of the separations would be hidden after connected, like between bricks in a wall or under a rooftop. But I'm well aware that at one-sixth, the Clock Tower alone would be around 7 feet tall. Now granted, that's the biggest building; most of the others would probably average around 2 or 3 feet. I just really like the idea of putting a ton of effort into it, and then showing it off at conventions and such. I'm tempted to build the Tower first, but a lot of the more detailed pieces would have to be custom-made (cat statues, the actual clock, tops of the columns). Still, I love the idea of building Hill Valley's main area, and finishing the buildings so they're not just mockups.
 
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