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I decided to get model Sunday started early today. Before I put up my entry, I just wanted to say a few little words of friendly encouragement. I had been hoping that Model Sunday would have a few more participants. I hope no one is staying away from it because they're afraid to post their works in progress for fear that they would be judged inferior by some mythical set of standards. On Scale Motorcars, we don't have a set standard for modellers meaning there is no level of quality that anyone has to meet to be able to post their work. This is the most user friendly site you'll ever see. We'd love to see what everyone is doing even if it's not a large scale car. So please feel free to post whatever modelling you've been doing this week. Thanks for letting me spout.
Now with that said, this is my contribution for the week. It may not look like much has been done but I build about 4-5 days a week for maybe 2-3 hours and I work slow. The detail I've added goes as follows:
1. I scratch builtthe auto pilot box and glued it to the front of the throttle quadrant. I again used different gauges of old steel guitar strings for the dials and for the toggles. I like to use the strings because they have a good deal of spring to them and are not dead soft like electrical wire can be. It doesn't bend out of shape when you try to push small pieces into the holes you've made in the plastic. Also, they don't get crushed out of shape like copper and brass when you secure it into a hemostat.
2. I reworked the instrument panel to look a bit more realistic. Monogram gives you a panel where the dials are raised instead of set in like the real thing. I took an small inverted cone bur (you can get this where they sell Dremel
3. Lastly, I cemented the panel into the rear of the bomb/nav compartment and cemented that into the main assembly. That's all I could get done this week. I guess I'll be adding little details until there's no more room for them. Maybe then I'll get to go onto another assembly.
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