{"id":1627,"date":"2013-03-02T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:24:54","slug":"lee-plaza-hotel-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/lee-plaza-hotel-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Plaza Hotel lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided on my size for the lion, which will be close to the size of the originals, I decided to go with 16-1\/2 x 22 on the clay model, after shrinkage it will be around 15-1\/2 by 21-1\/2 or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>I scaled from photos and it appears the original lions were about 17 x 24, hard to get it much closer since the only photos I&#8217;ve found were taken at an angle, but one that helped a lot was the photo of the 24 stolen lions in the police storeroom, I could see a concrete block wall the lions were leaned up against, and since the blocks are a known size- nominally 8&#8243; high, I was able to scale using that measurement and come close.<\/p>\n<p>I am about ready to attach the box form to the backer board to begin work today, here&#8217;s the form I am starting with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/architectural-models\/lee-plaza-hotel-lion\/wp-content\/uploads\/lee-lion-started\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/lee-lion-started-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"lee-lion-started\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1628\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided on my size for the lion, which will be close to the size of the originals, I decided to go with 16-1\/2 x 22 on the clay model, after shrinkage it will be around 15-1\/2 by 21-1\/2 or thereabouts. I scaled from photos and it appears the original lions were about 17 x 24, hard to get it much closer since the only photos I&#8217;ve found were taken at an angle, but one that helped a lot was the photo of the 24 stolen lions in the police storeroom, I could see a concrete block wall the lions were leaned up against, and since the blocks are a known size- nominally 8&#8243; high, I was able to scale using that measurement and come close. I am about ready to attach the box form to the backer board to begin work today, here&#8217;s the form I am starting with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}