I have been busy with this over the week, the spheres arrived at last so here goes.
I want to make it so they can be removed for transport and also the thruster housing housing will move if knocked rather than snap off...
this is the bottom of the (correct me if I am wrong) fuel cell with M8 bar at 100mm
I have pressed a couple of nuts in each side to screw onto the thread, I will use a nut on the out side as a locking nut and put a cosmetic cap over it..
next is an M3 bolt hot glued in place
I cut a disc to fit inside to clamp it onto the sphere, this way if it gets knocked it will slide to the side and not brake.....I hope
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I have the top and bottom caps cut up and ready to go, once the electrics inside are all in I will fix the outrigger cells in place and seal it all up....a bit of filler here and there and its ready for paint, I am shooting for the weekend for that.
I have also looked at Batninja's tutorial on the leather belt so I got the material needed and got cracking.
I used cardboard to keep with this theme and also I can add details inside the pockets, its anyone guess what Mr Fett actually kept in there but it most likely would kill ya.
What I have ended up with is a sort of kit that I am going to hand over to an in law who is far better at the sewing machine than me, I seem to be way out of touch to do the stitching so its out of my hands, I have given plenty of spares juuuuuuust in case........I am not worried :behave
I have also got the knee pads ready for paint, I had my own ideas about how to keep them on and this is what I come up with.
First I counter sunk some grooves to take the width of the elastic
cut the end off this strap
I then used an resin to hold the elastic on one end and the strap tie on the other, this way as the elastic stretches over time I can pull it tighter. I will also be using poppers to hold it in place and stop it rotating round my leg, sagging etc
and they stay up nicely I kept them on for about 45 mins and they didn't move, I ever wore them round work and no one even noticed
just looked like I was on a job (am a maintenance manager)
yes the shoes....I wore them to :rolleyes but got called out on them ha