Progress on the Bumper.

Managed to squeeze some time in this week to work on the bumper some more, its still a pain in the butt though.

Its finally taken shape, and Iam currently ironing out the final details in the thing. Ran into a bunch of hurdles in the curved parts on the to sides which was the majority of the hassle of this thing, but like all hurdles Ive been over coming them little by little.

The next headache was to figure out how the part contours at the bottom to the side parts. As seen in the above and bottom pics. The right side was fairly simple since it was a pretty easy fillet, but the left side was not so.. Luckily after a lot, and I mean alot of trial and error I was finally able to figure it out. The problem since I had free handed it it required alot of improvising until the final pic happened, Iam satisfied for the most part on how it came out though. Ill more than likley do something a bit different when the time comes to make the thing for real.

Currently Iam fighting on the right side, and it took me pretty much the most of yesterday to finally figure out how to get the groove on the right side to go from square to a round.

Again stuff like this always hits me when Iam not working on the thing, turned out to be something rather simple to do. After some searching on the "google", I found a pretty nice explanation on how go from a square to a round. Link here!

Iam really getting the hang of this, so when ever I tackle something Ive made up Iam glad Ill be able to put what Ive learned so far on this project towards it. So till next post.

Bumper Madness!!!

The Bumper, what can I say. I can solely say that this part has been a royal pain! Ive been working on this part probably for the last 4 days and Iam still not done.

As you can clearly see from the jumbled mess I have here lol. I belive the biggest issue Ive had with this part so far is the blue prints really dont have all the measurements so Ive had to guess on alot of stuff, artist interpretation if you will lol.

So one of the solutions I thought of and seemed to have worked so far was to basically bring in the actual blue print into Sketchup and scale it best I could to the initial part above. That way I could at least try to trace around some of it and make some rough measurements.

Overall Iam pretty happy with it so far, still far from done but still happy with it.

Unfortunately Ill have to put this project on hold after this part is finished or by the weekend, due too needing to start prepping for a Convention Iam gonna be at. I will be having a table with my sister and Iam going to be selling my Perler bead art there. Well till next post.

HGA,Gun Mount, and Filler Plug done.

After working on the pond for a little bit today I was able to finish up 3 other parts on the Proton Pack.

The first and probably one of the easiest pieces was the HGA, pretty standard stuff here just some simple cylinders. The weld line around the top was easy after all that I learned from the Crank Gen.

Next up was the Gun Mount. Now this thing was a little bit of a pain took me about 2 days of work to finish it.

Again knowing what to expect after working on the Crank Gen helped alot for this piece.

The longest thing about this part was trying to find out if the whole part tapers down or just the left part with the ribs. After a long exhausting research spree I finally found out that the whole part tapers down. On a side note the black pack in the back ground in the last pic I did not do, I found it on google warehouse and basically Iam using it as a reference for some of the parts I couldn't find real pictures of.

And finally the Filler plug/spacer this part goes on top of the cyclotron.

This was another simple part to make (Thank god lol), which was nice since Ive been running on fumes today.

All in all a really productive day, and tomorrow Iam off from work so Iam hoping for a repeat of today. Till next time.