Throwing My 32" Into the Ring

[daverep]

(02-24-2013, 05:09 PM)Wombat Wrote: Off to a great start there with things.

Should be another fine build the way its starting out. Yourself, Joe and peza are doings some fine work.

Thanks for sharing yours.

Much thanks! Hopefully the end looks as good as the start! LOL! It's been fun figuring things out and trying new things to see if they work. I've been pretty lucky so far, so hopefully my luck holds out.

(02-25-2013, 07:11 AM)JAWS Wrote: You will go nuts building that model.

I think I was already nuts when I decided to do this build, Jase!

Cutting this stuff by hand is pretty maddening. I'm getting to the point that if I'm off too much, it'll screw things up. I've alreay had to fix things that I have no idea HOW I screwed up. Two in particular...somehow I screwed up the right mandible when I was tracing Joe's pattern and it was off. Stupid thing was that the top AND the bottom were off. So, I sliced both of them off and re-attached them using Joe's pattern and now they're right.

Here's a pic of the joint. It ain't pretty, that's for sure.


And the mandible holes are off just slightly. Again, I have no clue how I messed that up. So, I'm planning to cut them out and put in a plug with the correct spacing. I'm going to wait until I figure out if I'm going to use pipe or square tubes for the mandible braces.

I'll put Bondo into the seams and figured too, that the plating will hide all of that.

Gotta get my equator strips in first, though.

Thanks again for the comments!!
-Dave