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Well... *sways a little*
I may have had a big glass of cognac tonight.
Shut up! It takes the edge off.
While the site rebuilds I...
oh yeah I got my first layer of color down on the remainder of te neue ziel.
A few more days and everything should be cured.
I'm a little concerned about the thickness and the application of the media since its so much wetter than my original formula (god damn its easier to cleanup though)
Right now I'm doing 4:5 paint:thinner
3:5 was recommended, but waaaay too thin.
9:10 would probably be ideal. It comes out clean cleans up... clean, but *shrugs*
So the plan
the plan the plan
shshshshshshshsshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
*suddenly misses Chris who was infamous for doing that when he was drunk, even when you weren't talking*
I'm not really that drunk, just... silly :)
anyway
I've got some lines down for my cannon.
I have
... SEVERAL design problems with it already
like load bearing
and...
well that's the main thing
its a CANNON
and the way I have it designed it fits the hip and is handled on the side.
yeah...
My original cannon design was based on a forearm mounted shield with a cannon barrel over it
this...
this needs some adjusting
problem is it looks FUCKING sweet.
This thing would practically have to be bolted into the hip and arm on a pivot hoist
Which I can draw
... cutting it out of sheet plastic and tubes in a working capacity
not so much.
I came up with a couple pretty cool ideas though, like a back mount for it and some antennae I could put on the backpack (I could even do the lil z pattern)
and a forum buddy showed me how to make those rivets on the gouf
stupid simple
answer: generic sewing pins, drill, cut the needle to an appropriate length, insert pins *maybe with a little glue
buuuut back to the cannon
Based on the Abrams cannon barrel. Some beveling and vents and other crazy shit
where I start getting ambitious is when I get my 1:35 scale ammo
if its an appropriate size, I'm going to crate a magazine and find a way to incorporate that into the design
and possibly
possibly
a working rifle chamber with a round inserted.
The thing is
if I can figure out a way to put guide runners on the damn thing I can probably make a latch that actually slides or at least turns to expose the chamber and ammo.
the easy part is just putting a small rod in half of a tube and putting the tube -over- the chamber.
The hard part is
well
making it work and not just glueing it in place.
I'd rather have a working floating barrel, that's how its designed to look at the moment (basically when the cannon fires, the barrel physically blows back and a piston pushes out in the back to equalize the force of the explosion... y'know... like an artillery cannon) that action also moves the mechanisms in the chamber and loads the next round in the magazine.
Its the basic mechanics of an autoloader but on a much much bigger scale.
That'd also be
extremely complicated and ... not noticeable.
So the focus is
incorporating the round, redesigning the cannon to where it could realistically be mounted/carried and fired, working the latch
for the most part its existing geometric design.
Build a box.
There will be two oddly, semi organic shapes on the two largest sides, then I'll work my way down from there, the panels on those parts (and their extra angles) will require some fairly thin sheets but... I think I can.
In my head its probably...
body: 2 huge symetrical odd shapes
Front panel, 45* panel, perpendicular panel, bottom panel, perp angle panel, angle panel, back panel (with disk to simulate flaoting barrel piston) angle pannel, top panel interrupted by blank spot for the latch, another top panel, 45 panel, parallel pannel.
... so a lil over a dozen pieces.
... that sounds like a lot. Hell the vent on the side is a box with an open face and back with vents so that's... at least another 10 right right there because each vent is an individual panel at a *45.
Did I mention I need a compass?
... I need a compass.
*yawns* there's me update. The paint looks a sickly spackled gray, like ... alien dust on gray.
But I know how it looks after 3 good coats.
