Thanks for sharing this, too!Graham wrote: Pacific's book of homes, vol. 25 (1925)
https://archive.org/details/PacificRead ... svol250001
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Oooh - that book is pretty fanatastic - thanks for the direct link.Graham wrote:I'm still exploring it myself, one good trick is to look at the keywords or the creator, they seem to have a lot of Sears catalogs, covering houses (including kit-built mansions), barns and fittings.Dr. Gerard wrote:1. Great resource, Graham. Knocked it out of the park with that one.
I'm linking below to a catalog by a West-Coast maker of Kit-houses, whose main claim to fame these days is that Walt Disney's first California home was one of their products, the advertising at the front gives a good outline of the 'kit house' process.
Pacific's book of homes, vol. 25 (1925)
https://archive.org/details/PacificRead ... svol250001
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As a finale on the Kit-homes material, here are a some articles about the largest of the Sears Houses, the Magnolia, offered between 1918 - 1922, though as the two blog articles show, it was still possible to order from an old catalog.
Syracuse house, which came from a Sears catalog, is one of only seven of its kind in U.S. (2011)
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/ ... _from.html
The Eighth Magnolia - and - It’s In West Virginia! (2013)
http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/201 ... lia-in-wv/
The Eighth Magnolia - and - It’s In West Virginia (Part II)
http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/201 ... a-part-ii/\
Later: Forgot to add illustrations.
Sears: Magnolia (1918-1922)
And what they were trying to out-do:
Stirling: Vernon (1915 - c.1920)
The 1915, 1916 and 1920 Stirling Home catalogs have been added to the 1920s Campaign Resources thread.
Syracuse house, which came from a Sears catalog, is one of only seven of its kind in U.S. (2011)
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/ ... _from.html
The Eighth Magnolia - and - It’s In West Virginia! (2013)
http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/201 ... lia-in-wv/
The Eighth Magnolia - and - It’s In West Virginia (Part II)
http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/201 ... a-part-ii/\
Later: Forgot to add illustrations.
Sears: Magnolia (1918-1922)
And what they were trying to out-do:
Stirling: Vernon (1915 - c.1920)
The 1915, 1916 and 1920 Stirling Home catalogs have been added to the 1920s Campaign Resources thread.
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Hey guys, I heard your discussion on maps and got very excited when I heard you mention Google Sketch up. I'm a student of architecture and I never even realized what a spectacular tool it could be. Not only can sketch up be used to download houses, but you can easily design your own buildings as well. Having trouble explaining the lay out of a building to an online group? Not if you threw together a quick massing model in sketch up! Make some rectangles, add some tags, and you have a map in under twenty minutes. If you want to blow a group's socks off, (And have too much free time on your hands) pick a key room, design it from the furniture to the wall paper and hide the clues INSIDE the model to add whole new layers to the investigation. I've seen Sketch Up pro used in professional environments and can speak from experience it it a relatively easy program to learn. I've built entire apartment complexes, complete with furnishings, windows, and textures down to very fine details. Obviously that's a bit much to do every session, but it's an example of what a powerful tool Sketch up can be with a little imagination.
Going on a slight tangent, Sketch up can be used to make props too. While obviously for in person games nothing compares to plopping down an actual dusty leather-bound tome, for playing online it could prove quite useful. In under an hour you could design a bizarre idol with writing etched into the bottom, or a secret compartment hidden in it's [REDACTED]. Suddenly, you can share a manipulable object with your online group.
Going on a slight tangent, Sketch up can be used to make props too. While obviously for in person games nothing compares to plopping down an actual dusty leather-bound tome, for playing online it could prove quite useful. In under an hour you could design a bizarre idol with writing etched into the bottom, or a secret compartment hidden in it's [REDACTED]. Suddenly, you can share a manipulable object with your online group.
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Damn. I need to look into this.UnknownEntity wrote:Hey guys, I heard your discussion on maps and got very excited when I heard you mention Google Sketch up. I'm a student of architecture and I never even realized what a spectacular tool it could be. Not only can sketch up be used to download houses, but you can easily design your own buildings as well. Having trouble explaining the lay out of a building to an online group? Not if you threw together a quick massing model in sketch up! Make some rectangles, add some tags, and you have a map in under twenty minutes. If you want to blow a group's socks off, (And have too much free time on your hands) pick a key room, design it from the furniture to the wall paper and hide the clues INSIDE the model to add whole new layers to the investigation. I've seen Sketch Up pro used in professional environments and can speak from experience it it a relatively easy program to learn. I've built entire apartment complexes, complete with furnishings, windows, and textures down to very fine details. Obviously that's a bit much to do every session, but it's an example of what a powerful tool Sketch up can be with a little imagination.
Going on a slight tangent, Sketch up can be used to make props too. While obviously for in person games nothing compares to plopping down an actual dusty leather-bound tome, for playing online it could prove quite useful. In under an hour you could design a bizarre idol with writing etched into the bottom, or a secret compartment hidden in it's [REDACTED]. Suddenly, you can share a manipulable object with your online group.
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I've played with SketchUp a little, but it hasn't really "clicked" with me yet. I should look into some other resources to learn the thing. That's fairly low on my list though. I have a ton of other things I need to learn first.
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