Looking for Man schematics

[Torquill]

I'd like to build a small-scale model of the Man (for personal use), and I was wondering whether I can get some schematics -- notes, Sketchup files, whatever. I can probably reproduce it from just peering at lots of photos, but it would be far easier with some basic info.

Can the Man crew release that sort of info, and if so, how do I get in touch with someone there? Has anybody here assembled their own build schematics? Anything to cut down on the design effort would be great.

Thanks
--Sam

[Token]

AFAIK, none have ever been posted. However ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/headlouse ... 916102462/

Documents building this little fella



And the project site while the fun was going on ...

http://balsaman.org/

You might want to poke around, do some google-fu and see if Colin is around and willing to share plans and whatnot.

If not, you got some real good images listed in them links.

Good Luck.

[Captain Goddammit]

It's never the same anyway.
You sure as hell don't want schematics of this year's pile of shit!

[Chowski]

Hey now! Stop picking on the little guy. It's not his fault he was incomplete, couldn't move, had no head, was invisible 90% of the week and created as forgettable a burn as he was a structure. What I learned from 2016, sometimes art fails. And not even spectacularly.

[Torquill]

Fantastic. Balsa Man looks like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. I sent email to ask whether they have stuff to aid me in my own attempt, and in the meantime, the photos will be a pretty substantial help.

Thanks, fellow Burners!

--Sam

[Traveller in Time]

This years idea was simple enough, just go round and round

[Ratty]

Are you guys talking about 'Headless handstand man'? Last year we had 'Too Heavy Headed Man'. Yes. Every year is different. Maybe that's why this year his head was so small.

[Token]

Zika Man

[Captain Goddammit]

'13 will be hard to top. That was awesome!

[BBadger]

It's never the same anyway.
You sure as hell don't want schematics of this year's pile of shit!

We shall call him Broken Breaking Wheel Man.

Breaking_Wheel.jpg

[maladroit]

All my Game of Thrones fan friends were out of their minds that week calling him the Flayed Man.

[Sham]

I still personally just want to see skeletal Man be the same every year. While everything around it evolves and changes, let the single object of the man remain the constant that everything gets built around. I was pretty shocked the year that the Man showed up and had a full "tin man" suit on. The Man pavilion is the exact center of the event.

[Simon of the Playa]

its totally open source..

[sadie]

Zika Man

I shouldn't have laughed at this.....

But I totally did...

[ranger magnum]

'13 will be hard to top. That was awesome!

Absolutely. Cargo Cult was the best man I've seen in 20 years of attendance.

[Ratty]

They will never top it. They will keep trying though. I hated the year the man spun around. I kept getting lost.

[ACfromSAC]

'13 will be hard to top. That was awesome!

For soooo many reasons. Very cool visually, the interactive elements within the base were really well done and that burn was AWESOME.

[trilobyte]

I'm moving this to the Q&A board, since that's a better fit for general questions relating to Burning Man. The actual design and schematics are not publicly available, though you're welcome to come up with your own (for your own personal use, of course).