Yet again, not the post i wanted to make... I really was holding back for a little while here... Wanting to put on a post of a nearly finished (bar software) build of my tricorder... IE painted, pre and then post weathering...
But NOoooooooo poop happens. And im now several steps back......
So first crap bit of news. One thing I really wanted to do was to make the battery removable... As these things dont last forever. It was always the plan to have the battery pull out behind the name tag.
Trouble is after several days trying out different ideas, I simply couldn't come up with a viable solution to putting the battery out and back in without the connecting wires getting tangled or snagged somewhere... So for now at least. The battery is sealed in there.
It can however be pulled out in case of emergency, and if I have a sudden amazing idea. This gives the the opportunity to solve it without having to cut the door out... However I might still end up having to do that some time down the line.
The face glued back and filled....
The plan was to sand back the already painted parts around it, and air brush it back in, and hope it all blended....
Priming and filling, priming and sanding..........
And sanding, and priming and sanding and priming........ Damn this took forever to get this smooth. The texture of the print lines kept coming back through... But in the end i managed it...
You can see the step left by the filler primer.... I planned to sand this back to make it smooth then air brush it again and blend it back to the original paint, However i didnt sand back the lacquer enough
After sanding... thinking it will turn out fine....
No... it didnt turn out fine
Not only was there a clear layering going on but the faded airbrushing ended up going crazy paving
So i had no choice but to strip all the paint there back, i managed to save having to do it to the sensor cluster as theres a well enough defined edge i can work too, as well as the main front face... But because of the smooth curves I had to strip all over the top and sides and bottom.... so effing annoying. Really I was soooo close to being done with the main part of the build.
There you can also see much of the electronics squeezed in there....
Ive re-sanded and done some fine filling again in some of the abs parts that reacted slightly with the acetone (melted a tad, nothing serious) and its nearly prepped and ready to respray with primer...
Ill do the first prime, sand it a little again to make sure its as smooth as i can get, one more prime and then paint with my grey mix.... Give it another day and then lacquer it.... Hopefully ill have something to show by the weekend.... Who knows. Maybe it will catch fire first D: