Doug's Colonial Movers

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I'm hollowing out these pieces so they look like the original kit parts. A fairly anal detail but necessary to replicate the original.


How it looks from the top side.


I have about half of them on so far.


I've just done the magnets on one container so far to see how it will work. I glued a ring and a stack of 3 metal washers on the container. These nest inside and positions the container on the mount point.


The mount point has a magnet glued in, recessed just enough for the part on the container to just contact the magnet. Gluing this in on top of the curved tube so the magnet would be flat was challenging. On this one I used bits of epoxy putty under the magnet first to level it and then poured in epoxy glue to lock it in. This was hard since the glue moved the magnet around and I barely got in into place before the glue started to harden up. 5 minute epoxy is a little too fast sometimes. I came up with a better solution I will show for the next one. Hopefully the new technique will be both faster and more accurate.


First container on. Finally 'moving' along....