The womb
09-05-2009 :: Gluing the photoetch to the form
Okay now it's going to be tricky as I must glue those tiny elements in the inside of the form following the plans, yuk, that was hard to get something symetrical!
09-08-2009 :: Moulding materials..
Now I had my form ready, what to do with it? I hesitated quite a lot with this one. Should I pour resin in it? what?
In the end I opted to stick with what i knew, so I sealed the plaster with some superglue, greased the form carefully and pressed some Magic Sculp inside with a modeling knife, trying the whole not being too thick
09-08-2009 :: Being wise...
Now the Magic Sculp is probably the mopst handy scratchbuilding material I use but it jhas its shortcomings. One of those is that it would tend to glue to the plaster far more than it would on plastic for isntance. So I didn't wait for the MS to be thoroughly dry before removing the parts I did. To ensure I would have a circular shape in the end, I let the shape rest in some other circular plaster mould I did previously.
09-08-2009 :: Sanding triming etc..
eh eh, now It is dry and what do I have to do? that's right, cutting the openings alright, and generally speaking thinning the two halves, I spedn hours over a few days to do that, with a few accidents in the way, but well.. in the end it was sort of worth :)
09-09-2009 :: The thow halves of the ball turrets
Honestly it took me some time to get that!
09-09-2009 :: Ball turret reasonnably okay
The 2 halves seem to join okay..
09-09-2009 :: Time to put the photoetch near the windows
Time to put the photoetch near the windows..so now you can see another use of tghis phototetch: by trimming with an X-Acto around the openings following the straight metal parts, I will be able to thin the ball turret enough so that nobody can see the actual thickness of the thing :)
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