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Old 03-02-2003, 08:46 AM   #37
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Hi all,
here are some more progress pics of the beetle. i'm working on the wing. its a bit more complicated than i originally thought. i couldnt think of how to bend a piece of plastic into the shape of it so i decided to do it the hard way. what complicates it is the curvature of the wing when you look at it from the top. its not like a simple straight piece that can be bent easily. it must be bent with a curve. I stacked cuved pieces of styrene like i did in the diagrams below and glued them together. i then went at it with my dremel to smooth out the "steps". finally i went at it with some low grit sand paper, puttied it and sanded some more. Its held in place with some double stick tape right now. let me know what you think






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