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Main gun finished!
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2018-08-15 23:36:00-07:00 |
| Added all the detail around the main gun, looks pretty neat, at least to me. In the last photo you can see the starboard swivel ... |
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Main gun, continued
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2018-08-15 23:28:00-07:00 |
| The main gun has these disks that fit around the barrels, with all sorts of stuff going on. So I cut the disks out of ... |
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Main gun barrels
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2018-08-15 23:23:00-07:00 |
| Making the main gun's barrels. These are just four rolled-up tubes of regular printer paper, glued with purple school glue. Nothing to see here, move ... |
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Miscellaneous
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2018-08-08 23:42:00-07:00 |
| I've redone the gun covers on the sponsons, plus figured out how I wanted the assembly to work so that I can (a) rotate the ... |
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Sponson weapons, Take 3
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2018-07-26 16:55:00-07:00 |
| I wasn't so happy with the guns, plus it was a tight fit to get them to swivel, so I shortened the design, improved the ... |
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Lascannon construction
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2018-07-21 00:44:00-07:00 |
| Tonight I built the new (and improved! ha!) sponson weapons. The red tube that sticks out the top will be trimmed, there is a sensor ... |
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Lascannon, Take 2
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2018-07-19 20:21:00-07:00 |
| As mentioned before I don't like the standard sponson lascannon weapons much, so I'm trying my hand at designing a multimelta, using openSCAD to get ... |
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Some details
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2018-07-17 01:04:00-07:00 |
| Small update: added the little radar dish, a machine spirit symbol, and started on one of the sponson canons. The radar dish is straight out ... |
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Crew Hatches
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2018-07-14 17:13:00-07:00 |
| Built the crew hatches on the top (the back one still needs the last piece, I mucked it up), and attached the headlights to the ... |
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Headlights and Engine Exhausts
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2018-07-13 17:40:00-07:00 |
| Added headlights and engine exhausts. The headlights are discs, the larger ones have some thin guage electric wire I scrounged from work as cages. The ... |
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Track assembly
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2018-07-11 15:48:00-07:00 |
| Assembling the tracks: I used index card strips to get my centerline, then started gluing the tank tracks... |
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Track molding and casting
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2018-07-10 14:58:00-07:00 |
| This post shows the tank track mold making and casting processes. I got this right through a bit of trial and error... In the first ... |
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Constructing the tank tracks
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2018-07-10 14:33:00-07:00 |
| Here is the tank track construction I mentioned. I used Eli's tracks as a template, and glued the pieces to a piece of paper that ... |
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Scratchbuilding a Land Raider
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2018-07-10 12:39:00-07:00 |
| Hi everyone, for the last couple of weeks I've been scratchbuilding one of Eli Patoroch's Land Raider models (the Land_Raider_II_2009 model). It's a mixed-media build, ... |