- April 5th, 2016, 12:31 pm#4859662
Yesterday (Monday) I started on the thrower since I had visions of the dimensions dancing in my head. Clock in time was noon.
It took me 2 hours to plot out and score the main body, slow blow and switch bars.
For the first time I actually didn't use any pencil marks except to indicate pieces that are scrap. Measured, marked a tiny spot with the sharp end of the caliper, then used the straight angle ruler and scored the razor along it. It's super clean but I had to press on the ruler super hard to keep it from straying.
Sure would be cool it there were kits in this fashion huh?
I subtracted the thickness of the styrene from the radius of the bend and cut out a piece. This will theoretically aid in forming the bend.
Cut out the front hole for the 1"pvc handle. Don't really like how the HProps plans I'm using seem to have measured around the weld lines. Was a bit misleading but reference shots cleared it up.
I measured the pvc and divided it by half to get the radius.
I drilled out the holes for all the switches and scored out the bar graph window. Used measurements from Spingfaces' bezel kit for sale thread, cause I ordered one! Woo! Didn't take any picks of these pieces.
For the vents I measured and scored in some pilot divots. I drilled six 3/8" holes using the step bit I'm in love with. I then connected the holes by scoring to China and back 6 times over a period of almost 2 hours! That literally hurt. A little filing and damn it looks almost machine cut!
Started gluing the body together.
You can see the radius rail.
I started to bend the radius over some 1"pvc as I have for every other bend so far. It was almost 9pm, I was hungry, rushing, tired, and this happened:
I hadn't noticed I over scored a section and it made the piece start to crack in the middle of the bend section! Ah! I knew I should have used the heat gun. I decided to stop for the day. Hopefully I can salvage the piece as I don't want to make the vents again! I'm hoping with heat it'll just bend and I can fill in the crack and abrase it smooth.
I'm wondering how to cut the hole for the rear handle. Thinking of just mitering 1"pvc and tracing it out onto the styrene. Then I'll just score that line. Hmmm.
That's it! 9 hours with half hour taken for lunch.
It took me 2 hours to plot out and score the main body, slow blow and switch bars.
For the first time I actually didn't use any pencil marks except to indicate pieces that are scrap. Measured, marked a tiny spot with the sharp end of the caliper, then used the straight angle ruler and scored the razor along it. It's super clean but I had to press on the ruler super hard to keep it from straying.
Sure would be cool it there were kits in this fashion huh?
I subtracted the thickness of the styrene from the radius of the bend and cut out a piece. This will theoretically aid in forming the bend.
Cut out the front hole for the 1"pvc handle. Don't really like how the HProps plans I'm using seem to have measured around the weld lines. Was a bit misleading but reference shots cleared it up.
I measured the pvc and divided it by half to get the radius.
I drilled out the holes for all the switches and scored out the bar graph window. Used measurements from Spingfaces' bezel kit for sale thread, cause I ordered one! Woo! Didn't take any picks of these pieces.
For the vents I measured and scored in some pilot divots. I drilled six 3/8" holes using the step bit I'm in love with. I then connected the holes by scoring to China and back 6 times over a period of almost 2 hours! That literally hurt. A little filing and damn it looks almost machine cut!
Started gluing the body together.
You can see the radius rail.
I started to bend the radius over some 1"pvc as I have for every other bend so far. It was almost 9pm, I was hungry, rushing, tired, and this happened:
I hadn't noticed I over scored a section and it made the piece start to crack in the middle of the bend section! Ah! I knew I should have used the heat gun. I decided to stop for the day. Hopefully I can salvage the piece as I don't want to make the vents again! I'm hoping with heat it'll just bend and I can fill in the crack and abrase it smooth.
I'm wondering how to cut the hole for the rear handle. Thinking of just mitering 1"pvc and tracing it out onto the styrene. Then I'll just score that line. Hmmm.
That's it! 9 hours with half hour taken for lunch.
"Don't be a crazy!" - Alan Hawkins
"Let's just not get bogged down in print tolerances, as spending six years cutting a perfect pack is all blown away once the thickness of the PAINT is introduced! hahaha" - johnnyace_pi
0.125" Styrene Proton Pack Scatch Build Thread
Rothco to Nomex Uniform Upgrade Thread
"Let's just not get bogged down in print tolerances, as spending six years cutting a perfect pack is all blown away once the thickness of the PAINT is introduced! hahaha" - johnnyace_pi
0.125" Styrene Proton Pack Scatch Build Thread
Rothco to Nomex Uniform Upgrade Thread