|   | Wood hardener | 2018-09-18 00:09:00-07:00 | 
          
            | I decided to add a decent covering of wood hardener to the model. This stuff applies like thin super glue, and soaks the paper/card, when ... | 
          
            |   | Final model, almost | 2018-09-11 00:15:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Here are some higher res photos of the (almost) final model, before final prep and painting. There are only a couple of things still to ... | 
          
            |   | Details | 2018-09-10 23:59:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Primed & painted the imperial eagle with polyurethane, then applied some thinned silicone. After this I covered it in plain silicon; this will become the ... | 
          
            |   | Iconography | 2018-09-06 23:02:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Working on the iconography (don't know what else to call it!). Got an Imperial Eagle design going, this will go on the front of the ... | 
          
            |   | Smaller details | 2018-08-30 00:32:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Smaller progress lately: added a bunch more rivets, added some more engine detailing, started filling in the minor gaps with some card strips, etc. I'm ... | 
          
            |   | Rear engine vents | 2018-08-22 23:34:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Spent the evening making the large engine vents on the rear of the vehicle.Lots of tedious cutting and gluing, but the end-result looks nice. Still ... | 
          
            |   | Current progress | 2018-08-17 23:43:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Ha. Built the starboard sponson swivel gun, then realized afterwards I had built the mirror image gun armor plate. Sigh. Luckily it is not that ... | 
          
            |   | Main gun finished! | 2018-08-15 23:36:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Added all the detail around the main gun, looks pretty neat, at least to me. In the last photo you can see the starboard swivel ... | 
          
            |   | Main gun, continued | 2018-08-15 23:28:00-07:00 | 
          
            | The main gun has these disks that fit around the barrels, with all sorts of stuff going on. So I cut the disks out of ... | 
          
            |   | Main gun barrels | 2018-08-15 23:23:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Making the main gun's barrels. These are just four rolled-up tubes of regular printer paper, glued with purple school glue. Nothing to see here, move ... | 
          
            |   | Miscellaneous | 2018-08-08 23:42:00-07:00 | 
          
            | I've redone the gun covers on the sponsons, plus figured out how I wanted the assembly to work so that I can (a) rotate the ... | 
          
            |   | Sponson weapons, Take 3 | 2018-07-26 16:55:00-07:00 | 
          
            | I wasn't so happy with the guns, plus it was a tight fit to get them to swivel, so I shortened the design, improved the ... | 
          
            |   | Lascannon construction | 2018-07-21 00:44:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Tonight I built the new (and improved! ha!) sponson weapons. The red tube that sticks out the top will be trimmed, there is a sensor ... | 
          
            |   | Lascannon, Take 2 | 2018-07-19 20:21:00-07:00 | 
          
            | As mentioned before I don't like the standard sponson lascannon weapons much, so I'm trying my hand at designing a multimelta, using openSCAD to get ... | 
          
            |   | Some details | 2018-07-17 01:04:00-07:00 | 
          
            | Small update: added the little radar dish, a machine spirit symbol, and started on one of the sponson canons. The radar dish is straight out ... |