Spaceman 3
01-03-2010 :: Using a saw to retrive the 2 halves..
a bit of saw job..
01-03-2010 :: Vacu form the sides
So, why not trying to make 2 halves and then afterwards trying to bind them?
01-03-2010 :: Faling with transparent plastic
hmm.. well, no, not that good. As you can see the turret is pretty high and the plastic has got some trouble to "fold" neatly around that shape
01-03-2010 :: Vacuforming the turret #1
so eh.. let's try to do the same for the turret!
01-03-2010 :: Finished air intakes
So first here are my air intakes completed, with some brass tubing and MS to make the joint
01-03-2010 :: The vacuform box
here's the box I use, all the stuff is covered with some plastic sticking paper for packets as I needed the whole to be really "airproof" the whole surface is covered with holes actually, but as I only needed a small surface for the vacuforming, I covered most of the surface as well.
12-31-2009 :: The base of the air intakes
Thansk heaven for magic Sculp, that's really amazing the amount of scratchbuilding you can do with this material. So here is the base of those air intakes, short ones, one each side of the hull. I used one of my photoetch rounds to put above each.
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