{"id":1228,"date":"2022-03-13T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:59:36","slug":"thats-right-monoeye-day-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s right! Monoeye! (day 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the basic shape for the head interior done I&#8217;ve started work on the monoeye. I do something like this for virtually every Zaku I ever build, though this time is a little different since I&#8217;m also thinking about how to make it in a way that I can cast copies in resin. I also did a bit of refinement work on the cockpit hatch, as it appeared to be off-center.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_overview.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_overview_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"It doesn't look like much, but it's a good step\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe structure of the monoeye is pretty simple &#8211; a cylinder that can rotate around its center axis, and on the surface of the cylinder there will be some mechanical details and a lens on one side. There will be a LED involved as well, at some point. For now I&#8217;m doing the basic, the cylinder and axis. It starts with choosing the appropriate size for the styrene tube that will form the monoeye track. Too small and it&#8217;ll look insubstantial, too large and it won&#8217;t have space to move. I wound up going with an 8mm tube, and a 3mm rod to act as the center axis. When the model is complete I&#8217;ll be able to adjust the eye position by popping off the helmet and accessing the rod to turn the eye.<br \/>\nI started by drilling the hole through the head interior for the axis rod. I began with a 1mm drill bit and after drilling, used the drill bit as a file to straighten out and re-align the hole. I repeated the process with increasingly larger drill bits until I got to 3mm.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_eye_mechanism_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_eye_mechanism_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"After working out what diameter I wanted for the rotating eye piece, I drilled a hole through the layers. Ultimately it'll be a 3mm hole but I'm starting with a smaller drill bit and working my way up so that I can keep the hole centered and properly angled at each step\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_eye_mechanism_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_eye_mechanism_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"With the hole drilled through, I prepare the eye part - for now just a cylinder of styrene tube, packed with epoxy putty to mount it to the rod\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_eye_mechanism_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_eye_mechanism_3_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The whole assembly together. I need to modify the head interior assembly so I can take this apart and remove the eye again\"><\/a><br \/>\nApart from the eye work, I also took a second look at the cockpit hatch that I sculpted a few days back: at some point it began to seem it was off-center. It&#8217;s a little hard to center things properly on the chest block as it doesn&#8217;t have a well-marked centerline, but I did my best to check it against the available guides and it appears I was right, the top of the hatch skews to the viewer&#8217;s left. To correct the issue, I trimmed down that side of the hatch, adjusted the position of the canopy, and added a new layer of epoxy putty to rebuild the surface of the hatch in the new position.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_hatch_alignment_check.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220313_hatch_alignment_check_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"This area doesn't have a clearly-defined centerline, but I'm pretty sure the initial hatch sculpt is off-center\"><\/a><br \/>\nThere are times with this project where it feels like I work a lot and get very little done. This is kind of one of those times. But I feel it&#8217;s going to pay off when the head can be properly mounted to the body and there&#8217;s a fully-detailed head interior to look at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the basic shape for the head interior done I&#8217;ve started work on the monoeye. I do something like this for virtually every Zaku I ever build, though this time is a little different since I&#8217;m also thinking about how to make it in a way that I can cast copies in resin. I also [&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":[8,86,10,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228"}],"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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}