Dyne's MSE-4

[Dyne]

Now that I've made significant progress on my BB-5M dome build and freed up a little of the pressure, I need to get cracking on the MSE-4, which I've barely touched since the last post.  With less than four weeks to Dragon Con, this will need to happen quickly.


Previously, I built a foamcore upper body and trench area.  I also picked up some 0.25mm black styrene with the intent of cutting out some skins.  There's no real reason for skinning it beyond the fact that i wanted some practice with sheet styrene (never used it before), that my foam core is Dollar Tree special (v. Poor quality foam), and that there was a gap in one interior corner where it didn't cut properly.  Also, it was being held together with scotch tape.




Step one was merely to trace the outlines of each side onto the styrene.  A white pen or a pencil would've helped visibility here, but i only had a black ballpoint or a sharpie at the time.  Good enough, with decent lighting.  Then I scored and snapped the panels off.  I didn't worry too much about precision, as I cut the edges a bit large so I would have some wiggle room.  Besides, I intend to putty the corners and paint later.

After cutting the pieces out, I decided to knoll them, since that's the hip new (not new) thing all the cool kids** are talking about these days.




The pieces were then attached to the foam core via Super 77.  




Protip: don't lay your clean parts on a surface that has recently been used for Super 77 spraying.  No pieces got stuck, but some minor bits adhered to the skins and will need to come off.

Now I just need to do all of these steps on the other sections of the body, sort out how to attach them, then proceed to puttying and painting.


** People that have clearly watched Adam Savage.