07-12-2018, 09:06 PM
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Mr. Cut-by-hand
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Northern New Jersey
Posts: 439
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Camera and gimbal
Once I decide to use the "functional" paint job, I knew the nose cone had to follow suit. So I rounded up all the pictures I could find of the functional nose. See picture one.
The only way I was going to come close to that was with a 3D print, so I whipped up a model in Tinkercad. See picture two.
I then spent too much getting it printed in black resin. Picture three shows the finished part, with a penny for scale.
Next came some painting with Testor's Enamel and some of those super-fine detail brushes. Now I know how people who paint miniature figurines feel. See picture four.
Finally, to get the "iris", the colored ring that surrounds the pupil, I printed up a very small shroud, made about a zillion of them until I got the size just right. Picture five shows one (with that penny again). It's not the final one I used; I changed the color to make it more bluish to match the pictures better.
Picture six shows the finished assembly.
Next post will complete the nose.
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