03 - THE BODY, chapter 1.
The construction of the model is the known tubes&cones-system.
Also:
Rounding the skinpart with a rod on a foamsurface.
Closing it and glueing the tabs.
Finally the bulkheads are put in place.
Special attention needs the fold over the lenght of the body. To keep it smooth it's better not to score.
I used a sharp corner on my ruler and rub with a finger.
The result:
And for the best result you always should do edge-coloring. For this I use a simple kids' waterpaint-set. Where needed the standard colors are mixed to adjust to the printed colors.
Like this:
When the maintube of the body (parts 1) is completed the first forward-cone (part2) can be made. And this goes on with the rest of the kit: building-order is by following the partsnumbers with sub-indication a-b-c- and so on.
Sofar I can only say this is a well designed kit. As already stated it came out of my printer very wel.
An advantage of the homeprinted kits is when a part gets destroyed it is easy to get a new part by reprinting it. And it will be just the same as the destroyed one, which certainly cannot be obtained when using a scanned copy of a ready printed model.
Will be continued....