How to Make a Baseball Stadium Replica
- 1). Draw the real stadium from several angles on different sheets of paper. Try recreating it from above, from a stadium seat and from the field. Remember to photocopy your sketches.
- 2). Measure the scale of the replica. For example, decide how many inches will separate home plate and the outfield (320 feet in an MLB stadium).
- 3). Split up the drawings into logical sections (outfield/infield, stadium sections).
- 4). Cut out a piece of thin plywood (less than ½ inch) that will become the playing field.
- 5). Glue the field carpet down. This carpet can be felt or simply painted, depending on how detail-oriented you wish it to be.
- 6). Place dirt where the base line and pitching mound should be. Follow your scale requirements closely.
- 7). Set up the stadium walls with more pieces of thin plywood. Depending on the stadium's design, it might be challenging to capture the shape, requiring you to fit together a dozen or more smaller pieces.
- 8). Fit the stadium with press boxes and stadium seating, if you are striving for that kind of detail. The press boxes can be adapted from wall outlet boxes.
- 9). Once you have painted the stadium's name on the outside wall of your stadium, you have completed your stadium replica.
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Take it a step further and create clay models of players and place them on the field. Consider placing them in iconic poses, such as Willie Mays catching an outfield fly over his head in the 1954 World Series.
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