No, I have not abandoned this project.
It's been lack of proper modeling time.
But I'm back.
Now... the inside of the legs are a bit tedious.
Several triangular supports need to be cut, fitted and glued.
Depending on how precise you were assembling the outside of the legs
and the internal squared support that joins them, you'll need to trim
the triangular pieces a bit (or much, or nothing at all).
After they're in place, the platform of the first "level" can be assembled.
UHU's original instructions call for the "floor" of this level to be glued to the bigger structure,
and then glue the "walls". I found it was much better to assemble floor and walls before,
as in the following photo, and when dry then proceed to glue the whole assembly to the tower.
After that the delicate inner truss of the legs can be cut and glued in place.
How delicate is it?
Well...
We have cuts of less than 1mm.
And remember I upscaled this by 25% to get 1:400 instead of the original 1:500.
It took me about 15 minutes "per leg" only to carefully glue each internal truss.
Which means I spend about 1 hour gluing all the 4 internal trusses.
Patience and precision are important. Accuracy can not be hurried.
(I didn't even timed how much I spent cutting).
So, here's where we're at:
I'm finding probably the most difficult part of this project is learning how to take good photos of it.
The structure is difficult to appreciate. Specially when your own eyes start blurring
with all those red angled lines criss-crossing in 3D.
At the present point, there have been 4718 cuts made including what has been done to the tower and the base.
Thanks for reading, and until the next time.