{"id":1208,"date":"2022-03-06T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2022-03-07T05:58:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T10:58:53","slug":"resnout-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Resnout (day 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The work on the new sculpt of the shoulder pauldron has consumed the majority of my time since I started this challenge. There’s still work to be done on it, and unresolved problems with it, but I need a change of pace. So tonight I gave the pauldron one more pass (removing the front spike again, realigning it, and setting it in place with CA glue again) and a fresh layer of epoxy putty to integrate the front spike again… And then moved on to working on the head.
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\nAs with a lot of this project, the head part is something I originally built ages ago<\/a>. The basic work<\/a> happened in 2006, and was more or less done in early 2008. Since then it’s had all this time kicking around in my model-making studio, getting broken, revised, dragged out for photos, etc. At some point the original snout broke off. All things considered maybe not a great loss. The original was a bit crooked, among other things, and I never felt like I ever quite managed to get it sorted out.
\nThe new one was built by cutting a length of styrene tybe, chamfering the edges (freehand), and attaching it to the old head part. Then a new snout was built up out of styrene plate. One of the nice things about using the styrene plate with the grid printed on it is that I can align the grid to the part’s centerline, and then the grid becomes part of the centerline reference, if I aligned it properly, that is. The centerline on the head part is a little vague sometimes. But the grid is very handy for this kind of work.
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\nIt’s worth noting the new snout actually has a different look than the old one: the old one was based entirely on my old hand-drawn plans, while the new one incorporates changes that were made to the Blender model somewhere along the line. I had been considering building the snout from styrene plate for a long time, even before the old snout was broken and lost. It’d be easier to get a styrene snout to be symmetrical and properly shaped and centered, and I wouldn’t have to worry about hollowing out the end as I would with the old polyester putty snout.
\nI’ve also made various alternate builds of the head in the years since I made this original sculpt: 3D printed versions, a solid epoxy putty version I cranked out on a livestream one time, I experimented with making the head slightly larger, etc. – but in the end I think the original sculpt was a good piece of work, and there’s no reason not to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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