- November 2nd, 2010, 10:26 pm#277248
Hey guys! Well, my ghost trap build has officially begun. I'll be using a kit for this, which includes everything necessary to build a GB1 hero trap; the kit is mostly metal (the handle, the sides, the wheels…) but has some resin parts (the battery box, the front box, the doors…) and many genuine ones (the vector plate, some knobs, the resistor…) I won't be building the kit as is; I'll do all sorts of personal modifications (mostly to make it more accurate) and I'll try to replace as much reproduction parts as possible with real ones.
Since the trap doors are pretty much the trickiest part (what's a ghost trap without its striped doors?) I started with those. Like I said before, the trap doors are resin (with brass hinges) but the casting wasn't perfect (at least to my taste; it's a rare flaw in a pretty much perfect kit) So since the gap between the doors wasn't straight enough for me, I sanded the doors until it did. That's when I figured that the doors wouldn't fit the kit anymore. Oops… So I had to basically rebuild the resin doors. With what? Styrene, of course!
So here's the result, after a little styrene and a lot of patience. Glued some strips at the edge of the doors, then glued a new surface for the doors (that were getting thin after all that sanding ) It's my first time working with styrene, and I now fully understand why bigi71 is using the stuff to build EVERYTHING. I officially love it. It's easy to cut, easier to sand, and it's SO much better than resin, it's not even funny. So now my doors fit perfectly, and the gap is pretty much nonexistent. Exactly what I wanted!
That's it for now! Well, it's a start, isn't it?
Since the trap doors are pretty much the trickiest part (what's a ghost trap without its striped doors?) I started with those. Like I said before, the trap doors are resin (with brass hinges) but the casting wasn't perfect (at least to my taste; it's a rare flaw in a pretty much perfect kit) So since the gap between the doors wasn't straight enough for me, I sanded the doors until it did. That's when I figured that the doors wouldn't fit the kit anymore. Oops… So I had to basically rebuild the resin doors. With what? Styrene, of course!
So here's the result, after a little styrene and a lot of patience. Glued some strips at the edge of the doors, then glued a new surface for the doors (that were getting thin after all that sanding ) It's my first time working with styrene, and I now fully understand why bigi71 is using the stuff to build EVERYTHING. I officially love it. It's easy to cut, easier to sand, and it's SO much better than resin, it's not even funny. So now my doors fit perfectly, and the gap is pretty much nonexistent. Exactly what I wanted!
That's it for now! Well, it's a start, isn't it?