foenetik
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Re: 1988 Mclaren Honda MP4/4 Top Studio Build
Well T, allow me to show you. Mind you they arent painted at all or complete. theres a nut and wire tie that goes to each pair of raised styrene on the rings.
So what i had to do was glue solder to the edge of the PE disc like so. You can imagine how hard it was to get them straight and every time i pushed down, if it wasnt straight down the piece would fly out of my hands and bend the pieces. Well the solder would keep bending cause my hot ass hands would soften it i guess, and it really didn't want to stay glued. then once you glue them like the pic below, you have to cut them short, then put a PE disc on top and then cut them flush and sand them even. basically the disc was a spacer so when you sand they're all even size tall. But with the solder, cause everything wasnt perfectly straight it was impossible to put the disc on without either bending it or popping out the solder. so i got styrene rods in the same size cause its fairly rigid and doesnt want to melt in my hands. and its easier to manipulate to make the disc fit. worked much better. it was very hard and tedious.
this is after the cutting and sanding. im going to paint everything with alclad pale gold to make it look one color. then theres these PE parts that simulate nut locks that goes across a pair of the styrene nubs.
Semi Completed Rotor Assembly
Well T, allow me to show you. Mind you they arent painted at all or complete. theres a nut and wire tie that goes to each pair of raised styrene on the rings.
So what i had to do was glue solder to the edge of the PE disc like so. You can imagine how hard it was to get them straight and every time i pushed down, if it wasnt straight down the piece would fly out of my hands and bend the pieces. Well the solder would keep bending cause my hot ass hands would soften it i guess, and it really didn't want to stay glued. then once you glue them like the pic below, you have to cut them short, then put a PE disc on top and then cut them flush and sand them even. basically the disc was a spacer so when you sand they're all even size tall. But with the solder, cause everything wasnt perfectly straight it was impossible to put the disc on without either bending it or popping out the solder. so i got styrene rods in the same size cause its fairly rigid and doesnt want to melt in my hands. and its easier to manipulate to make the disc fit. worked much better. it was very hard and tedious.
this is after the cutting and sanding. im going to paint everything with alclad pale gold to make it look one color. then theres these PE parts that simulate nut locks that goes across a pair of the styrene nubs.
Semi Completed Rotor Assembly
