Getting Started: Ignore the Details
Okay, you don’t really want to throw out every detail, but many smaller features on large objects are just not going to be included in your final work. In Chapter 5, I talked about a technique called approximation. This is the building method where you try to give things the look and feel of their real life counterpart without necessarily duplicating every last detail.
That same principle can also be applied to microscale models. The easiest way to do this is simply to look at the thing you are modeling and try to see only the characteristics that stand out the most. How does that work? To find out, let’s go back to the Empire State Building as an example of how to create a model at this scale. If you tried to ...
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