10-29-2011, 07:48 PM
Well after Charles's fantastic pictures of the engine section what i'm about to post is all rather minor. Still it's all part of the process of making a SS Battlestar so heres what i've gotten up to since my last posting on my progress.
The coffin is all sanded back, it turned out ok but still looks strange being how it is. I'm sure as both Charles and Mike have commented, it'll be less noticeable once theres part's covering it. So that side of things is done now and awaiting the start of some greeblie action at some stage down the track.
Next up and this is my latest bit of playing is the pyramid. Again it all just goes together very easily. Just some edges to bevel and thats about it before assembly could be done. I went ahead again and reinforced the joins on this area to hopefully hold things together well for at least the rest of my lifetime anyway. As you can see it's once again built as two pieces and then will be joined for good once on the body. It needs some putty and thats what i'll be doing next before gluing it onto the body. of course prior to that i wanted to see how it looked. LOL
One more thing i got completed was the lid levelers installed on the body. This requires tapping a thread into the body where each leveler is positioned. The holes were already present so it was pretty easy, even for me. LOL
It's one of those things i would normally just use styrene strip to shim something if needed, in this case the body lid. But that ain't the way our Charles goes about things when he designs something. The build incorporates these nylon thread insert that can be wound in or out to adjust the lid height and levelness. He really doesn't do things by halves as i think we are all aware of by now and this is just another example of it.
Then just for something different i decided to see what this thing looks like with a couple of bays hanging off the side. Well ,incomplete bays but it sure widens that bugger up. I've got plenty to do on them still but i'll work on getting things lined up properly relative to the body pretty soon. Once that is sorted plenty more can happen in that area also.
Well thats it for now.
The coffin is all sanded back, it turned out ok but still looks strange being how it is. I'm sure as both Charles and Mike have commented, it'll be less noticeable once theres part's covering it. So that side of things is done now and awaiting the start of some greeblie action at some stage down the track.
Next up and this is my latest bit of playing is the pyramid. Again it all just goes together very easily. Just some edges to bevel and thats about it before assembly could be done. I went ahead again and reinforced the joins on this area to hopefully hold things together well for at least the rest of my lifetime anyway. As you can see it's once again built as two pieces and then will be joined for good once on the body. It needs some putty and thats what i'll be doing next before gluing it onto the body. of course prior to that i wanted to see how it looked. LOL
One more thing i got completed was the lid levelers installed on the body. This requires tapping a thread into the body where each leveler is positioned. The holes were already present so it was pretty easy, even for me. LOL
It's one of those things i would normally just use styrene strip to shim something if needed, in this case the body lid. But that ain't the way our Charles goes about things when he designs something. The build incorporates these nylon thread insert that can be wound in or out to adjust the lid height and levelness. He really doesn't do things by halves as i think we are all aware of by now and this is just another example of it.
Then just for something different i decided to see what this thing looks like with a couple of bays hanging off the side. Well ,incomplete bays but it sure widens that bugger up. I've got plenty to do on them still but i'll work on getting things lined up properly relative to the body pretty soon. Once that is sorted plenty more can happen in that area also.
Well thats it for now.