Ages ago I was asked to produce a 3D model of the J-Class Yacht Valsheda, I was given a set of plans for the yacht and really would like to have a go at making a stationary model of the yacht, but the plans are a tad on the small size (the boat oin the plans, not the plans themself), if I took the plans and created frames from them at a 1:1 scale it would only make a model that is around 1m long, I really would like to double this and make a model that will measure around 2 meters in length basically to fit a known gap on a wall.
I have tried photocopying and even scanning them in and then changing them in photoshop and then printing them off again, both way have problems and I do not know of anyone with a large enough photocopier to print anything bigger than A3, the plans that I have are A1 in size and heavily detailed. I have tried taking photos and even tried scanning them in on my A4 scanner and trying to piece them together but with obvious results on lines not meeting up and basically ending up being a real pain. If I can get them into say Adobe Illustrator I could then easily set the scale I would want for all the frames and then re-print each frame as needed but its finding a way to get the paper plans into something like illustrator without spending a year re-editing them.
Has anyone got any hints as to the best way of doing such a task.
Kind Regards
James