Looking good!
Very nice! Keep up the great work!
Nice handcrafting sir!
Thanks guys! Little by little…
School is out, grades are done, and I’m finally back to the pack. Jack sent me a kit with resin triangle mat and the vintage pencils for my booster frame. Funny thing, I found a bundle of the Dixon Ticonderoga 1388-2 5/8 at a yard sale last week, and I would have used them, as the 5/8 would get sanded off anyway, but I went with the ones from Jack. I tried to match the pencil spacing from one of Vince’s booster close ups from the Sony lobby. Thanks again to Jack and to Vince for supply and info resources!
I’ve been looking for all of those little bits for so long, I think I need to build something big next…
Been sitting on my butt a lot lately with the excuse that my hand embroidered patches needed to be finished (Hand Embroidered No Ghost and Nametag COMPLETE! - Uniforms - GBFans.com) Well now they are done and I’ve got no excuse. Back to the garage. New deadline of Sep. 8th for Rose City Comic Con seems a little daunting at this point but the arrival of my flight suit has lit a fire under my seat.
Did a little work on the power cell this evening. Not much, but better than nothing.
Your deadline is possible. I’m pretty certain I will have my Pepakura pack and a spare parts pack done by Wizards World. The biggest thing for me is to accomplish one thing each day. Even small things. It’s looking great so far!
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Thanks Alan, That is a good tip and a reasonable goal. the problem with this build has been that the days on which I accomplished nothing have FAR OUTWEIGHED the days where I’ve gotten anything done. Going on another family trip this weekend, I’ll have to take my suit and sew on the patches one day at a time 
Man that’s a nice booster frame, gotta love a good scroll saw! I love watchin’ a good scratch build!
Thanks, I really have jackdoud to thank for the resources to put that booster frame together.
The scroll saw is litterally one of the best gifts I have ever recieved. I used to cut ANYTHING less than 1/2" thick with jig saw, but now I use the scroll saw, probably more often than I should, just because it’s so darn convenient.
I love my scroll saw too. Its great for cutting plastic as well.
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Picked up an alice pack frame at army surplus!
Started building the gun mount block. Zombierepellent advised me against using wood, and I respect his input, however, I was already this far at that time, and I have made a point through this whole build to make as much as possible using materials that are already in my garage… so I guess I’ll see how it works out.
After a lot of sanding, I attached the gun mount block to the gear box along with the rounded corner piece and shot them with primer. I’ve also made some recent work on the gear box including the hole for the wire loom, the hole for my crank knob pot, and a hub for the HGA to fit over.
I know this much… Getting the top half done feels SO good! Now, drink beer my friend!
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coming along very nicely.
Thanks Alan! I will!
Thank you for the positive feedback venkman30! It’s one of the great things about this forum that keeps me (and I’m assuming so many others) going!
Really impressive. Keep up the good work.
I bolted all of my major north end components together. Shot the edges with silver as I currently plan to do the “take-away” method of weathering.
I decided to start on the Synchronous Generator. I have recently acquired a sheet of aluminum for my motherboard, so I decided to chop up my old presswood motherboard to use as the foundation for my spacer, keeping with my attempt to use as many materials as possible that I already have lying around.
I cut so near the line on my scroll saw, that the leftover piece of the old motherboard is a perfect compliment of the spacer and will ultimately be used for the faces of the center cover. (not pictured)
I glued a length of pipe at the top to form the tight curve there. This pipe is slightly off scale, but it is so close, it was worth it to me to save the work to find something better.
I found an old piece of unused molding that was in my house when I moved in. Decided to use it for the walls of the spacer.
Using a kerf-cut method, I made the cuts for the bends in the walls.
Now here’s where I realized I had made a HUGE MISTAKE! I can’t explain it other than that is was very late at night (or rather early in the morning) but I had made the whole thing 1 whole friggin’ inch TOO DEEP!!! I got very frustrated and took a break until the next day to decide how I was going to fix this issue. I finally made a line at the true depth of the part and used a jig saw to cut around. It was terrifying, but it worked!
Here’s the spacer at the appropriate depth before putting a top on it.
I traced a top, epoxied it on, did some filling, painting, sanding, and ultimately cut out the back and the front to turn this into more of a shell than an enclosed structure. I added the plates to the faces around the walls. Thus this is where she stands at the moment!
NICE spacer! No mistakes, just opportunities to make it more unique.