planetary sensor thing continued
Ok I’ll be honest here. This planetary sensor array thing-a-ma-bob has been kicking my butt for the last two weeks. I had intended to post my progress as it went, but for a while there….I was afraid to. This little scratchbuilding experiment was threatening to go horribly wrong, and I was getting pretty frustrated. But, after multiple attempts, false starts, and plenty of mistakes, I think I’m finally making some progress.
Here are a few shots showing a little bit of how it went together.
The framework in acrylic
skinning in styrene
Bondo!
Primered
The final version (I hope) with the spotlight housings added. It's more Bondo now than styrene. The stack of disk shapes at the left is the beginning of the dome.
I think I’ve got the hardest part licked for now. It may not be 100% accurate, but I think it looks significantly better than the kit supplied part. I don’t foresee the dome being as problematic as the rest. Of course, I’ll need to mold it and cast it as well. Hmmmmm…. we shall see.
When the frustration got to be too much, I took a break and built the Eiffel tower. It took the laser roughly an hour and a half to cut the intricate patterns, and an additional hour for me to assemble. It was a fun little diversion.
Not bad for a two hour project!
