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Your Scratch Built models / Li'l Orion Part 4
« Last post by Eliot Brown on June 20, 2019, 05:51:23 am »On to windows. I thought scribing and then clearing out would be easy. Maybe if I'd done it before I trimmed off the fuse from the entire sheet, it would'a. But no-- the vac-formed plastic was too thin and it got beaten away. So! On to second vac-form fuse. The second time I drilled and connected. Much better.
I decided I wanted the rear APUs to not give me so much trouble so instead of fussing to fit everything, I sat it on a blob of ApoxySculpt. I think being more prominent looks better.
By the time Steve mentioned he had closed up the internal wiring, I had built the interior and *should* have left it out. It caused nothing but trouble later and there are parts rattling around inside the finished model...
But I made it and in it went.
You can see the interior-- which would have been smashing with a couple of lights in there! -- and also the little blob of A-Sculpt which restrains a small piece of brass tube that telescopes on 1/16" rod. I like to make a paint stand and a display base at the same time so that everything fits later. In this case, it's a simple rod; no big deal. But that strategy pays off when it's two mounts or something really fancy like a square tube (WHICH is something I should have done with this model-- I did not think far enough ahead and did not consider how the ship could be mounted at the exit of the Space Station. A piece of square -- soldered at the ends of a support rod (who wants to bend square stock?) would prevent the model from spinning... )
I decided I wanted the rear APUs to not give me so much trouble so instead of fussing to fit everything, I sat it on a blob of ApoxySculpt. I think being more prominent looks better.
By the time Steve mentioned he had closed up the internal wiring, I had built the interior and *should* have left it out. It caused nothing but trouble later and there are parts rattling around inside the finished model...
But I made it and in it went.
You can see the interior-- which would have been smashing with a couple of lights in there! -- and also the little blob of A-Sculpt which restrains a small piece of brass tube that telescopes on 1/16" rod. I like to make a paint stand and a display base at the same time so that everything fits later. In this case, it's a simple rod; no big deal. But that strategy pays off when it's two mounts or something really fancy like a square tube (WHICH is something I should have done with this model-- I did not think far enough ahead and did not consider how the ship could be mounted at the exit of the Space Station. A piece of square -- soldered at the ends of a support rod (who wants to bend square stock?) would prevent the model from spinning... )

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