You mean you don't make the models yourselves? That's interesting. What would it take to become a model-maker? Would that person be trained as an architect and then just specialize?
That's probably the career path most have taken. Walking into a shop like that feels a little bit like a sweat shop - you have the feeling that it's a whole bunch of architectural graduates, slaving away for minimum wage. Don't know if that's true... But once you get really good at it, you can make some pretty good coin.
A shop like that will do highly detailed presentation models, with laser-cut components, very accurately sized. Some architectural firms do a lot of massing models as they develop a design. We (and a lot of others) do it all with computer modeling, and then for a presentation model (for the realtor's display suite), we'll send our drawings to a place like this where they can do a much better job.
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You mean you don't make the models yourselves? That's interesting. What would it take to become a model-maker? Would that person be trained as an architect and then just specialize?
That's probably the career path most have taken. Walking into a shop like that feels a little bit like a sweat shop - you have the feeling that it's a whole bunch of architectural graduates, slaving away for minimum wage. Don't know if that's true... But once you get really good at it, you can make some pretty good coin.
A shop like that will do highly detailed presentation models, with laser-cut components, very accurately sized. Some architectural firms do a lot of massing models as they develop a design. We (and a lot of others) do it all with computer modeling, and then for a presentation model (for the realtor's display suite), we'll send our drawings to a place like this where they can do a much better job.
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