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i need to make a model of the grnd opera house in sydney austrailia without using a kit or food. it all has to be hand made any ideas or homemade pictures? send them to Rachelterk92@yahoo.com

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You may find this link interesting and useful to your project.

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~brand/logsp...

It points out how they became circular shells and not the sails originally designed due to production costs.

The Golden Ratio is also a subject matter that we should keep in mind when we think of organic designs.

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You are going to have the same problems they had in building it - it is compound curves all over the place.

All of the following is ways of making those curved shells.

I would have to suggest either finding a curved surface that matches what you need - say a large bowl or car hood or fender - and make a master mold, like of paper mache.

An alternative would be to get sand, make it wet and pack it and push it to make a shape of the curved parts, then cover it with plastic and use paper mache to make a master mold (or the pieces if you keep the sand from drying out.

On the master mold you can use thin plastic to keep it in good shape and use either paper mache or roll out thin clay and lay it - like this:

http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/warmgl...

the problem with thin clay being that it is very fragile and has to be fired. I have not tried rolling polyclay that can be hardened in oven.