{"id":89,"date":"2005-07-13T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:53:18","slug":"shield-widening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Shield Widening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the outer surfaces of the shield more or less finished, I       turned my attention to the inner surfaces.  To give the back       surface a good work surface I cut out some 25mm wide styrene       rectangles to fit inside the back of the shield.  I added some       .5mm strips to the inside of the shield so these new plates       would sit level with the edge of the kit part.  Then I drew up a design       (pretty much just a widened version of the MG shield detail) for       the shield detail on       1mm graph paper, cut it out, and attached it to styrene       rectangles I&#8217;d cut out, then cut through the areas that needed       to be removed, gradually removing material and then filing it       down to a uniform edge.  The result is still a bit sloppier than       I&#8217;d like &#8211; I think in the future when I start filing I&#8217;d better       be more careful, and take more measurements as I&#8217;m working.  So       far I&#8217;ve got the part for the top section of the shield cut out       and installed &#8211; next I need to cut out the detail for the main       part of the shield.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"Plans and parts\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"7mm tube (this will come in handy later...)\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"The flat-faced shield, and the detail parts with patterns glued on\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_4_thumb.png\" alt=\"The top detail after cutting away most of the blank space.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku\/MGZaku_050713_shield_5_thumb.png\" alt=\"Current state of the shield\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the outer surfaces of the shield more or less finished, I turned my attention to the inner surfaces. To give the back surface a good work surface I cut out some 25mm wide styrene rectangles to fit inside the back of the shield. I added some .5mm strips to the inside of the shield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}