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Have you considered a patch? Now that you are getting shims in place, could you cut a piece of cardstock to cover them? Structurally, the shims should have things stable, so a 'band-aid' would cover the part that is visually unappealing
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That's a lot of work gap filling work 🙀. You mentioned in your posted reply to my comment that you use glue 'wet' paper to gglue parts together, as you say like paper mache. Could you do something like that to fill in the gaps ? It would be a bit like using filler on a p-stic kit. Once dry, you would sand it flat, gap filled and lines smoothed out.
Just spitballin' an idea to help.😸
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Obviously you are trying to keep the model in sections...so you can dismantle it and reassemble it.
Trying to fill those gaps at this point is going to be difficult, and I don't think the gaps are going to properly disappear without completely filling the joints. Why not just add another strip of card to the outside "skin" over each joint? Wide or thin, or just enough to cover the gap. The strip should overlap both joining parts ...but glue the strip to only one part, so that it will slip on and off the other part. Together, it will look like just another overlapping surface part. With one section sliding inside the other section.
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Regards and take care Kevin
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Regards and thanks Kevin
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Thanks for sharing your idea Regards and take care Kevin
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Shims update
Dear all
So I have been filling the waist/thigh gap of Buzz. It is time consuming work. Essentially I have got the front, side and back of each hip to fill (for Buzz and Neil). So I have managed to do the back of one hip so far. The use of 0.5 mm thick shims does mean that you can get a good fit however. I am pleased with the result in that there is contact virtually all along the shims with the torso. Better than I hoped to be honest. I have sort hit on a sort of method now how to proceed so hopefully I can get a bit quicker with this. Regards and take care Kevin
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Life-Size Buzz waist line
Dear all
I have been doing all the shims for the waist line for Buzz. It has been slow work. Eventually I completed all the "filling" I am really surprised just how "smooth" the layer of shims is. It has really paid off going down to 0.5 mm thick shims. Following the suggestions people have given in previous posts (many thanks), I decided to cover the shims with paper of the same type as the main model parts are cut from (shown below) So this is a close up of the finished result with the thighs and torso joined together And finally a front and back shot of the thighs and torso So now to do the same for Neil Regards and take care Kevin
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Great work, well worth the (your) effort.👏👏👏👏
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Thanks gotham, much appreciated.
Regards and take care Kevin
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