The Wills Building is big enough to be clearly visible on the satellite view of Google Maps. A few printouts, some tracing paper, a pencil, a ruler and 15 minutes later we have a plan.
Add some Googled images and Adobe Illustrator and we have a front elevation, mix in some schoolboy maths and there’s our scale.
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The maximum plot size for Cakebook2011 is 110cm, so I scaled my baseboard up to that, coming out at 41cm deep. The area includes the grass and road around the building, so the completed building will be 103cm wide. This does make it almost 3 times the length of last year's cinema, but it is still shorter (note to self: choose a tower or lighthouse next year).
Out to Wickes to buy a piece of mdf. Marked up, cut to size and sanded, it's ready for the plan.
Drawing the plan on the board I realised exactly how long and thin the cake was going to be. A little more maths and the ‘interesting’ bits are scaled up by a half. It could have been more, but I didn't want it to look caricatured; it's still shorter than the cinema though.
The cinema was solid fruit cake, but the Wills would be too big for that. My chosen construction is foil-covered cardboard box interior, sponge bricks and buttercream cement, with ready-to-roll icing veneer.
The box construction needs to be a consistent amount smaller than the finished size, so I took 27mm off each measurement to allow for a thickness of 25mm of sponge and 2mm of icing. 27mm just happened to be the width of my metal ruler, so marking the box sizes was a matter of moments.
Plans done...
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