The Big Top

The Big Top is a one ring tent with two 54 scale foot rounds, and one 45 scale foot middle, making the whole thing about six feet wide and around nine feet long.

It uses 2 center poles, 14 quarter poles, and 40 side poles. The centers are 28 inches tall, or 42 scale feet. It is erected by the push-pole method.

The canvas is a it stained where it was exposed while being stored on the spool truck in the barn. The side pole grommets are beautifully stiched to the tie-off ropes, and the center pole rings feature a larger ring stiched to the canvas and connected by miniature chains to a smaller ring for the poles to stab through. In contrast, the quarter poles are just stabbed through the cloth with no reinforcement. I would like to upgrade that.

There is not, at this point any sidewall, another possible upgrade. There is minor repair needed to the centerpole rings. I will let the pictures do any further talking.





Now we start prepping for repair . . .