{"id":1215,"date":"2022-03-09T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2022-03-10T05:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:47:04","slug":"cockpit-canopy-work-day-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Cockpit Canopy Work (day 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be a bit hard to start a new piece of work. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking that I want to focus on getting the torso of the Zaku looking a lot closer to finished &#8211; that way when I show a piece of work, I can show it in context of at least some recognizable portion of the rest of the robot. In the end I didn&#8217;t get much done tonight, but I got a decent start on the canopy for the cockpit hatch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220309_canopy_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220309_canopy_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"After taking measurements of the area I worked out some measurements on grid plate and began cutting out the part\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220309_canopy_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220309_canopy_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"To make the curve in the middle I scored the plastic plate a couple times and bent it. I used a similar technique when I made the shield.\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220309_canopy_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220309_canopy_3_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The canopy needs some more work before it'll really start to feel right but for now at least it covers the empty space.\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA few things went wrong with this part &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get the measurements quite right, it&#8217;s actually too narrow at the top. But it&#8217;s handy using the grid plate for things like this, especially as it gives me a centerline to use as reference. One of the tricky bits here is that I also have to build up whatever structure will be behind the canopy &#8211; and I don&#8217;t really know what that will be. At the moment the new part is held in place with a generously-sized piece of poster tack to get it in the proper position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be a bit hard to start a new piece of work. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking that I want to focus on getting the torso of the Zaku looking a lot closer to finished &#8211; that way when I show a piece of work, I can show it in context of at least some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,86,11,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}