This saga probably belongs in the "Comedy Stand" forum, but I'm putting it here anyhow.
Having built a few of Bruno's 1:300 models, I decided my next project would be the first file he released in the "One Model Every (Non-Working) Day" thread -- the Fouga Magister in Patrouille de France colors, 1:100. There's nothing particularly tricky about this model, but I simply cannot get it going my way so far. The first time I printed it was on 67 lb. card stock, and I never put knife to cutting board on that one; the paper was obviously too thick. So I tried Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte, which is like a lightweight cardstock (with a very definite right and wrong side). It was still too thick, and I may have allowed my subconscious to save me from finishing it by gluing the wing on upside down (first picture). Into the wastebasket it went.
My next attempt was on some absolutely wonderful (and very expensive) high quality bond paper that I got at Paper Source. It worked extremely well on the 1:300 Zero, and it was going well on this model too. I made two mistakes, though -- I tried gluing the fuselage sections without using the glue strips at all, and although they did stick to each other, alignment was a serious problem. The fatal flaw, though, was that I glued the tail wheel / fairing badly crooked. I tried without much hope to slice it off, and that failed as badly as I expected it would (second picture).
As I was reprinting it yet again, I was looking at the beautiful, saturated colors on screen and wishing they weren't so washed out on the page. This inspired me to tinker with my printer settings, changing from "Plain paper" to "Photo paper matte." Aha! This was a good idea -- the printer took FOREVER to print, but the colors were deeper and more saturated as I had hoped (third picture). The photo setting is on the left, with a sample of the plain paper setting overlapping the right side.
So tonight I sat down, knife in hand, started cutting and . . . What the *BLEEP*, where did THAT come from?!? (fourth picture). It took me a while to realize that when I washed my hands before sitting down to the worktable, the Bandaid on one finger absorbed water which it then deposited on the printed model.
I'm about to print it out again. I'm hanged if this thing's going to beat me. Wish me luck.
Having built a few of Bruno's 1:300 models, I decided my next project would be the first file he released in the "One Model Every (Non-Working) Day" thread -- the Fouga Magister in Patrouille de France colors, 1:100. There's nothing particularly tricky about this model, but I simply cannot get it going my way so far. The first time I printed it was on 67 lb. card stock, and I never put knife to cutting board on that one; the paper was obviously too thick. So I tried Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte, which is like a lightweight cardstock (with a very definite right and wrong side). It was still too thick, and I may have allowed my subconscious to save me from finishing it by gluing the wing on upside down (first picture). Into the wastebasket it went.
My next attempt was on some absolutely wonderful (and very expensive) high quality bond paper that I got at Paper Source. It worked extremely well on the 1:300 Zero, and it was going well on this model too. I made two mistakes, though -- I tried gluing the fuselage sections without using the glue strips at all, and although they did stick to each other, alignment was a serious problem. The fatal flaw, though, was that I glued the tail wheel / fairing badly crooked. I tried without much hope to slice it off, and that failed as badly as I expected it would (second picture).
As I was reprinting it yet again, I was looking at the beautiful, saturated colors on screen and wishing they weren't so washed out on the page. This inspired me to tinker with my printer settings, changing from "Plain paper" to "Photo paper matte." Aha! This was a good idea -- the printer took FOREVER to print, but the colors were deeper and more saturated as I had hoped (third picture). The photo setting is on the left, with a sample of the plain paper setting overlapping the right side.
So tonight I sat down, knife in hand, started cutting and . . . What the *BLEEP*, where did THAT come from?!? (fourth picture). It took me a while to realize that when I washed my hands before sitting down to the worktable, the Bandaid on one finger absorbed water which it then deposited on the printed model.
I'm about to print it out again. I'm hanged if this thing's going to beat me. Wish me luck.
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