Hello everybody,
after a short detour to the moon in the year of the
50th Anniversary of the first Moon landing by Apollo 11 in our
German Raumcon Forum, in order to comment on the events around
Paul Van Hoeydonck's unique sculpture
"Man in Space", which was laid down on the moon by
David Scott during
Apollo 15 mission as
"Fallen Astronaut" along with a plaque with the fourteen names of astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the pursuit of Space exploration,
Source: BILD (Ken Glover)
I'm back on track again.
Today I want to start with the preparations for the creation of the wavy
SOFI Ring Structure, for which I famously wanted to apply a combined
Flour&Strip Method.
Last summer I had first determined the shape and then the geometry of the
SOFI Texture and started with first preliminary experiments, s.
Reply #1741.
For the
starting pattern (left) that time I had glued single rings of
1 mm wide
Rai-Ro-Tape next to each other onto my
ET dummy and used a magnet strip loop of
Evergreen strip 0,25 mm x 0,5 mm as a spacer.
In the meantime, I also got me the required different width masking tapes and thought about some more patterns.
For the
2nd pattern I have successively glued single turns of
0,75 mm tape and in between at the same time as spacer a black
0,5 mm tape as continuous spirals (
Barber pole), which was rather tricky,
but has worked well nevertheless.
For the
3rd pattern I've glued
Evergreen strips 0,25 mm x 0,75 mm in the same way by using
MEK, which are thicker than the used Tape strip (about 0,1 mm).
Before the
Flour test, the spacer tapes (0,5 mm) are removed again.
For the
4th pattern I have glued onto the
0,75 mm tape one more layer
0,5 mm tape, to get something more thickness, and for the
5th pattern I have cut some 0,75 mm wide strips of
Evergreen Sheet Styrene (0,1 mm) and glued them also by using
MEK with 0,5 mm spacing.
Next up follows the
Flour test by using spray glue, which I am very curious about.
