thank you!!!
Imcold, we need to talk
ok, a lot of pics today:
- first couple => how the rudders turned out after a good couple of days "under pressure"
and how they look once assembled (just a dry pose, if this expression exists
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- from pic n° 3 to pic n° 8 => rear engine edge ring and how it's assembled; you can notice how it's becoming more circular and regular than before
- from pic n° 9 on => thrusters! yes, now the game gains in difficulty and I'm going to describe as clearer as possible how I manage to build this part. first, all the necessary elements, then the building process. this part gives the engine its thickness and, in my little experience, I understood that trying to bend thick cardboard, specially if you need small cylinders, it's not easy at all and the result is often disappointing. so I tried another way and this is where I got: instead of 1 mm cardboard, I "splitted" the thickness in multiples layers, every section with its increasing diameter. in order not to introduce variations in paper thickness, I got rid of tabs completely, gluing all the paper strips "head-to head" directly with CA-superglue (and here a pair of tweezers are almost indispensable!). once I got two rings, I put the smaller in the larger, because I designed them to be perfectly matching, and thus doubling paper final thickness (0.2 mm x 2 = 0.4 mm). this is the basic method, repeated as many times as needed to get a ring 1 mm thick so, using 0.2 mm paper, 5 of them = 1 mm! another important point is that, while a single ring is irregular because of its thinness, the more they get "layered" the more they get regular and rounded, till getting almost a normal cylinder. again, all the layered rings are NOT glued together! and they no glue because, being so tight, they keep their position. glue will be used only to get rid of the "layered effect", but I'll make dedicated pics for that moment.