Ardes Modellbau

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So… about that storm of homework… 3 big projects, 2 little weeks and the computer is not being cooperative.
My big design project, the one I’m designing with the product design department and in cooperation with Melitta, has a final design, at long last, and in order to have a final model to show off, our teacher, Herr Kampe, arranged a pretty sweet deal with a modellbau (a workshop) that’s in Nürnberg (about an hour south of here). So, along came Saturday the 23rd and I carpooled down to the place with a few other students to jump into model making. I was totally flying by the seat of my pants, because I had no idea how I was even going to begin with this thing… it was supposed to turn out as a rubber placemat with a computer screen set into it!
Alexander Grämer, the owner and head operator of the Ardes Modellbau, helped me out in no time flat figuring out what to do, and I made slow, but serious and well informed headway to come out with the final product after 2 full weekends of work at it. In fact, the final Sunday, he left about 9pm and offered breakfast to anyone still awake and working the following morning! Anyhow, I am greatly indebted to him for all the help; I most certainly can’t use a gravity-feed spray gun with that sort of dexterity!

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