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Does anyone know how to make one. I'm stumped on how big it should be. Any ideas?

•The White House is 168 feet (51.2 meters) long

•The White House is 85 feet 6 inches (26.1 meters) wide without porticoes; 152 feet wide with porticoes.

•The overall height of the White House (to the top of the roof) is 70 feet on the south and 60 feet 4 inches on the north; the façade (grade of lawn to parapet) is 60 feet on the south (lawn at 54 feet above sea level) and 50 feet 4 inches on the north.

At 1:60 scale
that means 33.6" long x 17.1" Wide x 14" tall

Wow it will actually fit on the table!!!!

woot 100 posts!

Try this:
http://www.papertoys.com/white-house.htm
Print it out and temp-glue it to some plasticard or foamcore or something and cut it out. I used this method to make a pretty good Trukk Cab.

Do I sense some sort of Modern Warfare-esque shenanigans??

And what Dysturbed said.

Dysturbed wrote:•The White House is 168 feet (51.2 meters) long

•The White House is 85 feet 6 inches (26.1 meters) wide without porticoes; 152 feet wide with porticoes.

•The overall height of the White House (to the top of the roof) is 70 feet on the south and 60 feet 4 inches on the north; the façade (grade of lawn to parapet) is 60 feet on the south (lawn at 54 feet above sea level) and 50 feet 4 inches on the north.

At 1:60 scale
that means 33.6" long x 17.1" Wide x 14" tall

Wow it will actually fit on the table!!!!

woot 100 posts!

Dysturbed wrote:•The White House is 168 feet (51.2 meters) long

•The White House is 85 feet 6 inches (26.1 meters) wide without porticoes; 152 feet wide with porticoes.

•The overall height of the White House (to the top of the roof) is 70 feet on the south and 60 feet 4 inches on the north; the façade (grade of lawn to parapet) is 60 feet on the south (lawn at 54 feet above sea level) and 50 feet 4 inches on the north.

At 1:60 scale
that means 33.6" long x 17.1" Wide x 14" tall

Wow it will actually fit on the table!!!!

woot 100 posts!

romeo.lima wrote:Do I sense some sort of Modern Warfare-esque shenanigans??

And what Dysturbed said.

Thank you Dysturbed, and yes, romeo.lima, that is the idea.

Think really carefully about how you're going to store and transport this BEFORE you start making it - e.g. how will you move it through a doorway? It almost certainly needs to be made in several separate pieces. This will be a lot of work, so you don't want to accidentally end up with a White Elephant instead...

Dude if the CIA ever found out about this........ well they can go suck a lemon, the white hosue would make an awsome gaming board

This would look great if you made it look like it fell straight out of fallout! I can se the pillars at the front sandbagged up and super mutant parts scattered all over the place!!
Nice project mate, cant wait to see some pics!

Liam

Hmm, with a bit of work, you could build modular add-ons, e.g. sandbags and barricades designed to fit it exactly, swappable roof sections etc - that way you could use it for a bigger variety of games.