Spaceman 3
12-31-2009 :: The air intakes
I realize I forgot to take pictures of both the machine and the shape I used to form those air intakes.. Anyway, here's the result.
12-31-2009 :: Vacuform
So, i have been building a wooden vacuform machine using the general instructions provided by the wi-king of fun diorama making: northern guy Per Olav Lund. Some pierced wooden box with one big opening to plug the vacuum cleaner in it, and using a paint removal heating machine to soften the plastic.
So basically, you heat your plastic until it's soft, and you press it against the right sahe and it takes the form of the shape.
So first i used a sheet of 5mm thick wood that I cut a square into so that I wouldn't burn my fingers when heating it. I fix the plastic on it with pins
12-30-2009 :: The completed searchlight
Brass rod for the holder, aluminium tubing for the main body, rounded back done of Magic Sculp -And "gift" bolts on each sides -the triangular shape was a bit of my photoetch fret
12-30-2009 :: The searchlight
the work on the searchlight began with the bit of base. i had to use a drill and carve a rounded shape in it so that the metal holder of the searchlight could embed on it (okay, it will become clearer with subsequent pictures
12-29-2009 :: Ending up the aerial
some of holed photoetch bits I used for the railing are soldered at each end of the horizontal bits and i call it finished
12-29-2009 :: Paper and ca glue
Some CA glue coated paper to tie everything together. When the whole is glued, some MS to fill the joints.
12-29-2009 :: The aerial
Only the Aerial, but then there are a handful of techniques here, oh well, for what they're worth.
2 brass sheet painfully soldered together and a rolled MS lump for the upper part which is more conical. The problem is that it doesn't want to stay real straight and I should have embed a metal sheet in it oh well.
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