Do we really need another BSG Shuttle GAL 356?

[Troy Downen]

Another hot and humid weekend morning. I haven’t bled yet for this model (it’s coming, I know it is) but I sure have sweat. So… blood, sweat and beers? That’s the saying, isn’t it?

I bit more work securing the flight deck LED strip with epoxy, and then I smeared some additional 5-minute epoxy inside the front shuttle body shell and inserted the armature and resin brace to fix it in place. You can see here that I attempted to clamp down the sides of the body shell to better fit against the armature brace while the epoxy cured…



…and I failed in getting the gaps to close. So a smear of Apoxie Sculpt and I think the front end is secured. You can also see here a bit of craziness I’m trying with a block of plywood to give the aft end of the shuttle body a bit more surface area to hang onto when I epoxy it to the armature brace. We’ll see if it really makes any difference.