I felt it was time to add the parts together and take a picture.
It is starting to look like I am actually progressing
Picture of progress
Tag: foam board
The arms have a home
Very carefully I cut into my Dalek and made openings so that my arms could
be installed, The Arms are not permanent just a dry fit. Have a lot more to do before actually gluing them into the shoulders
Not seeing straight
I found a better way of adding the foam board to the outside.
I took all the foam board pieces off the shoulders and chose to add a larger piece and score the foam board so it would curve around the body.
Ooo, look at my skirt.
The skirt was put together over the last few days
When I made Mini-Me one of the worst parts of putting the skirt together was the lack of edge to glue the pieces to each other.
Mini-Me had a brass tube frame to hold everything together in the skirt. This was not the best success; it held but there are cracks down the seams between skirt pieces.
For this new one, I cut out the the pieces of the skirt, then stuck foam board to each one as a backing and the foam board made the pieces thicker.
I also made interlocking flaps and tags so that the foam board went over the gap. The result is that the skirt feels much stronger and a little heavier.
Here are some pictures from different stages.
This is your brain on Slurm
I got an email asking how my Bender was doing and if I had done any additional work.
I have and here is an update.
compared to this
I built up the body from the cylinder of card and used foam core to add ribs all around the body, giving the slope effect to the body, and insulating foam filler to fill the gaps. A cone shape of card covers the neck area.
Still trying to figure out what to do with the mouth area.
I wanted to try something different when doing Bender’s head and so I used Google Sketchup to make a dome the right shape and a plug-in to slice the image into a 4×4 shape.
Then I printed the shapes out and glued them on to foam core material.
This was the hardest part. I cut out the shapes in the foam core and slotted them together. I then get this sort of matrix shape.
The main issue I had was printing in scale, as it sort of changed size ever so slightly I think I managed to cover up the small anomalies okay. A side issue is that it is very difficult to get good detail out of this method.
Here is a close up of the head.
The next step will be to cover the head holes with paper mache and smooth them down.
A new year, a new dalek
Over the Christmas break I started work on a new scale dalek. This will be an Ironside dalek.
I have completed the base and am now in the process of strengthening it. The skirt is cut out and I need to cut some more pieces out then I will be able to glue it together.
This is what the base looks like. I made only one major mistake (bottom right corner), even though I measured 4 times and cut once. I will take care of it with filler.
Here is an underside side view. I have covered the joins with newspaper to make the joints stronger
This foam board should make everything more sturdy once glued to the underside of the base
I will add foam board across the joints of the skirt panels too.
Here are the panels
Easy twist off dome
To access the inside of the neck and dome I made this keyed twist off ring.
The neck is supported by this ring, and loops on the shoulders hold everything in place.
A certain amount of precision is needed for everything to line up.
An alternative view with the ring in position.
