After what seems like an eternity, all the pieces were edge-coloured,
strapped with thin paper strips and joined up. I then cut the ten page
2's along with their layers:-
I'm using an Eaglemoss model as a rough guide, so that's led me to
recess the grey rectangles and have three very narrow strips layered on
the lilac grill. If I was only building one of these I'd probably add an extra layer for the 'plates', although the way that the parts have been cut would possibly lead to poor joins on the layers.
Loads of contouring folds, a gazillion fold scores and a few calluses
later, the bulk of the upper wing surface is complete for the ten
cruisers:-
Joining the front section to the main 'wing' section took eight paper
strips each, ie 80 tiny bits of paper to connect all ten - lol. Three
different colours were required for the edges, adding to the time
consumption - tabs just can't be used at this scale due to the bulking
effect they have. Cutting the page threes was the next challenge:
because I had to lighten the purple, the lines for the white stabilising
parts disappeared! I had to go back to the template and fiddle with the
brightness, contrast and gamma saturation settings of the image, print
off another template, cut round the white parts and draw round the
outlines. It's still no excuse for taking 10 days to complete one page!
lmao If the galors are the same then I reckon I'll be drawing my pension
before I've built 25...
Page three is finished and I've started on pages 4 and 5:-
I'm going to add a layer for the recesses on the rear protrusions. If I
was only doing one of these I would also layer the mauve grill sections.
The strips for the edges of the wings are ~0.5mm thick so I'll probably
ditch them and just colour the white that shows.
Although it's taken another 10 days to complete page 3, I took a couple of days off to turn my phone into a communicator. It would also be much, much quicker to build using the tabs on the template - I prefer to have smooth surfaces so the extra time required is a price I'm willing to pay.
Although it's taken another 10 days to complete page 3, I took a couple of days off to turn my phone into a communicator. It would also be much, much quicker to build using the tabs on the template - I prefer to have smooth surfaces so the extra time required is a price I'm willing to pay.
With the main body complete, the parts for the ventral 'pod' were cut and edge-coloured:-