Ah.. I just faved it on Flickr ! Didn't know you were here too... 
What are those plans for/of ? Nice objects (dice, knife, etc.) !!!
Those plans are a rough sketch for a quite ambitious scale modelling project I have in mind. Well, it rather jumped my mind like a flea jumps a cat. And it got stuck and keeps reproducing itself, spamming my brain with a multitude of scale modelling ideas, of which only a fraction will end up in those plans (some 10 pages of them once the planning stage is done). The other 90% worth of ideas will be added during the mock-up and building processes, and will have to remain in my head until then.
Once I finished moving to our new home, and the dust settled a bit, and I have all the welding and house building thingies done, I intend to build a 1:12 scale section of an oil refinery. Not only the exterior, but also the interior of the refinery towers, with opened manholes, and the basement levels, where most of the operating valves are moved. The intention of this is to end up with a 3 dimensional, fully usable 48"x48"x48" piece of gaming terrain for a boardgame I'm writing some rules for. Gantryways and stairs should allow plenty of movement on 7 fully detailed levels to move the gaming pieces on, allowing for the amount of confusion that will keep the game challenging and the players on their toes during the game.
The game will use gaming pieces partially sculpted myself and partially made of bits and pieces salvaged here and there. So much work to realize just an oddball idea that crept up on me, but such is life. An idea is worth something once it can be shared, and to share an idea, you need to do something with it.
The dice are handmade, using various precious woods, buffalo horn and bone. Made using techniques used by craftsmen 1000 years ago. The knife is also handmade, and was a prototype. I am now working on a commission for a $2500 knife. The sketch for that one is somewhere underneath the plans in that picture. The mammoth tusk sections shown in the picture are for that project, along with some Elm burl (one of few trees sharing the earth with the Mammoths) and bolster and pommel for which I still have to do some sculpting, to create a positive that can be made into a ceramic negative used to cast bronze. I have most of the means to do the bronze casting myself.
