MasqueNoMercy
New Member
So I started working on this about a month ago but was put on hold because i needed to find resin and bondo (autozone) and expanding foam for the inside (home depot)... If anyone has any suggestions or ideas on how to go about this project, feel free to comment
The thing is pep'd and assembled and i got the file to print from off the pepakura library but it isnt exactly the same as the in game mine, close but maybe not close enough for some people
Construction just about in the middle of the hard part... the center curved area
[attachment=7199:CIMG1009.JPG] [attachment=7200:CIMG1010.JPG]
Construction complete
[attachment=7201:CIMG1011.JPG] [attachment=7202:CIMG1012.JPG]
Resined, Bondoed, and Foamed
[attachment=12600:CIMG1190.JPG] [attachment=12600:CIMG1191.JPG]
Primed
[attachment=13213:CIMG1341.JPG]
Lessons learned:
1. Window foam is soft and spongy, hardware foam is hard and durable
2. If you add foam, too many holes is not enough holes, always add more holes and bondo them up later otherwise face expansion and explosion
3. Dont let bondo sit for too long or it will get really hard to sand down
4. Dont glob on too much resin otherwise you will get hard drops everywhere
5. make sure your whole mode is of one kind of texture, (resin your bondo or bondo your resin) otherwise the primer will not look right after the whole thing is sprayed(still checking if i can just spray more primer to see if that will fix it)
Update - 11/01/2009 WELL... this is my first attempt at this stuff... i think i learned a lot of useful tips which as you saw i put up there... but im surprised i havent reached catastrophic failure at all, but heres an image of how the mine looks after the primer spraying
The thing is pep'd and assembled and i got the file to print from off the pepakura library but it isnt exactly the same as the in game mine, close but maybe not close enough for some people
Construction just about in the middle of the hard part... the center curved area
[attachment=7199:CIMG1009.JPG] [attachment=7200:CIMG1010.JPG]
Construction complete
[attachment=7201:CIMG1011.JPG] [attachment=7202:CIMG1012.JPG]
Resined, Bondoed, and Foamed
[attachment=12600:CIMG1190.JPG] [attachment=12600:CIMG1191.JPG]
Primed
[attachment=13213:CIMG1341.JPG]
Lessons learned:
1. Window foam is soft and spongy, hardware foam is hard and durable
2. If you add foam, too many holes is not enough holes, always add more holes and bondo them up later otherwise face expansion and explosion
3. Dont let bondo sit for too long or it will get really hard to sand down
4. Dont glob on too much resin otherwise you will get hard drops everywhere
5. make sure your whole mode is of one kind of texture, (resin your bondo or bondo your resin) otherwise the primer will not look right after the whole thing is sprayed(still checking if i can just spray more primer to see if that will fix it)
Update - 11/01/2009 WELL... this is my first attempt at this stuff... i think i learned a lot of useful tips which as you saw i put up there... but im surprised i havent reached catastrophic failure at all, but heres an image of how the mine looks after the primer spraying