This thing is looking a lot like an upturned animal with it's stumpy feet in the air!
The "feet" are sandboxes on supports. Fiddly to assemble, there are cut-outs in the bottom of each part that I don't think should be there as the sand would leak out. Worse, they weaken the soldered joints.
Much of the detail has been attached with solder paste and a RSU. I like using the resistance tool and should do more with it. The paste is less fun as the leftover, on this uncleaned model, is dark grey and not a pretty silver.
Lost wax details are a nice touch but they really need to be polished in some way after fitting. I have a small sandblaster that I'll use on this to see if I can clean the solder and cast brass surfaces.
Thank you for another year's worth of blogs. Doing something every day is quite a feat; I don't know any other blogger that does it.
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed your daily posts and it has made me restart modelling.
Happy New Year.
David Evans
Happy New Year, Phil. Your blog is my standard go-to for breakfast reading, much more interesting than the Guardian! Hope you have a good 2016, all the best, Iain
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