The way I feel right now with the wet weather making my old fractured carcass ache Joy, it's a wonder I can build at all !! And yes it is looking pretty good, a lovely model to put together.
Bones On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 11:21:52 PM UTC+10, Bones wrote: > > It's been pretty quiet here so I thought I'd post a progress photo of The > Betty. So far, with only a very small number of hiccoughs, this has been a > complicated but entirely satisfying build. This is part of the hull with > one of the two "arms" connected including hydraulics and some of the > pipework. Only a couple of small and insignificant parts had minor issue, > nothing at all to get upset about, and the rest fits like a glove. > > Absolute accuracy is needed with both folds and cuts to make the parts fit > properly, so any that haven't are more than likely due to my cavalier > attitude, at times, to building. Very enjoyable and highly recommended for > those after a model of this most interesting ship. > > If I had thought of it earlier in the construction I would've double > layered some of the exterior panels and cut out some of the recessed parts > and glued another printed piece in from the back but too late now and > anyway, it would've added at least as much time and effort again to the > build. > > More to come. > > Bones > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
