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Its about the same thing as sanding.
So tonight I-
*pops his spine and rubs his eyes*
tested out my razor saw
(and I've already got a few dozen ideas that may or may not work with the tubes locking in with plates, fins etc like making a custom hinge by drilling a plane, and gluing a small rod so it'll slide)
... that makes no damn sense, but I could show you on paper
basically dig and cut a groove into a solid piece of plastic right?
then drill a hole in sheet plastic
glue a small rod and wait for it to set
slot the rod into the groove, you now have something guided in that groove
putty over the original part and you have captured the custom part in that groove.
it was the idea I came up with when I was trying to make some claw atachments actually move (rather than just glueing talons) onto the Gouf's heat rod.
I also found that I could cut right down the middle of a very small tube by moving the piece against the saw.
Very dangerous for your fingers, but I like the results, I managed to cut pretty far down into it, and I said to myself "self"
"you just found a way to make custom wings and fins"
all I have to do is buy my pin-vise and drill the appropriate diameter and glue it into place... and probably anchor it on the other side with putty.
It'll add mass to a kit, but it'll also add AWESOME.
... I do NOT have a plan for that, a big issue is I can only really work in the realm of flats and planes until I either figure out a way to put a curvature on the scrap, or until I just break down and putty everything with a curve.
I know if I get the thicker sheets I can actually have enough real estate to put on an accent edge or a bevel.
Ambitious as ALL hell... I know, and I'm gonna do more research on bonding these very thin surfaces.
Anyway, I got in the garage and put the almost last coat (you never know til you actually look at the pieces) of primer on my Neue Ziel SD.
In all honesty I may have that kit done by next week. I know I'd like to so I can start working on my Gouf.
When I was done and had emptied a canister of primer on all the parts that needed it I went back in, cleaned my brush and started cutting out sanding sticks from some old cardboard I had laying around and the sheets of sandpaper I had bought.
Results were greater than expected.
Carpenter's glue. 1.99 a bottle.
Cardboard. .99 for a cubic foot box
sandpaper of varying grades $.90-.40 per sheet.
Not $15 sanding sticks. And I even have some skewers I can glue sandpaper to.
I didn't find that all that necessary yet.
Anyway, the 1/144 gouf being the sacrificial lamb that he is- volunteered his nibs and rough edges to my exacto a couple nights ago, and now he got a double dose from my sandpapers.
100 was a bit too much. 220 was something you barely wanted to put two spins on.
440's pretty nice.
I have a 1500 that I didn't make a stick out of yet. I can only imagine how clean that'd get my surfaces.
You can still see some of the nibs and edges but not on the parts I could really dig in on.
Now there's just a fine sanded powdery burn in those parts and from what I'm told it will not show up after priming.
On the tubes, I managed to pick up the exact combination of diameters that go from 1/4th inch diameter to 1/16th and interlock perfectly.
That means I can make some different barrel effects with the tubes like a funnel or a bevel.
I'm looking forward to drilling some barrel effects too.
The 1/4 I think is good for a cannon barrel. It's not HUGE but its about Bazooka diameter, and those things look like blunderbusses in that scale.
the... 1/8? ... 5/16? something I own is about the right size for a machine gun/rifle barrel.
And I picked up some 1/16 rods on a larc and I think I can honestly come up with uses for them.
I just haven't yet.
Mostly structural/internal.
I'm still concerned about building doodads (y'know- scopes and bells/whistles, iron sites and mechanical stuff) from scrap... but I do have a lot of those items available to recast from existing guns.
Crazy thing is the guy that runs the forum I'm on did a tutorial on wood finishes.
... I think that means I could theoretically make a replica tommy gun for a kit.
That'd be all kinds of stylin.
The unfortunate thing about all this knowledge is...
not much really. I'm pretty excited about it.
But it does create two distinct directions for my Gelgoog, which ... the challenge is to make it awesome.
Follow in the footsteps of my favorite gelgoog which had scrap armor, boosters, and guns (and now that I've seen the scrap parts I can really wrap my brain around how he did it), and just double plate the son of a bitch, and add extra wings/fins/boosters?
or
go with an idea that came to me while talking to a coworker
Voodoo Gelgoog.
Gelgoog has the oval-tower shield all he'd need are some freaky details, a whitewash skull painted on him, and a burlap voodoo doll on a chain with pins in it.
I'd have to buy or trade the shield though.
Jonny Ridden custom no can has.
All those white parts are scrap styrene tubes or sheets (like I have).
and so are these crazy exposed leg motors he shopped.
End result. Gets me wet. Looks like some extra beveling, armor plates on the chest, custom gun rack, custom shield, those leg and ass thrusters (hehe ass thruster) decaling and riveting (some pre-paint, if you look close some of those parts are screwed in)
My favorite mod on this whole kit though has got to be the extra armor. So simple, yet so often overlooked and rarely done.
I wouldn't do what he done did. But I'd take some direction that's for damn sure.
