Making progress, slowly. Spent last weekend and part of this rebuilding my gazebo that came down after that 18" of snow. Drilled for the number boards, but the bit wandered after it got through the body filler and hit the die-cast shell, so I'll need to file and shape them into the correct positions, re-fill, sand and smoothing the damage afterwards.
Started attaching the roof detail. It was nice being able to design the antennas into it, but the reality didn't match up with my expectations, as the resin didn't cure straight enough in such a fine line and I wasn't happy with the results. Plus, it was extremely fragile. Re-engineered them without the antenna cross-pieces and with holes in the stanchions, and ran .020 brass wire. Tried first with holes slightly larger than the wire, but they didn't print cleanly, so I doubled the size of the holes and the wire passes through them.
I currently have 4 of the 5 roof panels attached, waiting on the last to cure, along with the re-proportioned number boards. After printing out the numbers, I decided to make them shorter, which should also increase the odds of them landing on the flat before the nose starts to taper in. Also made the rods longer, as they were barely clearing the filler and the die-cast shell. Hopefully have a cleaned up and primed pic in a few days. At that point, I just need to do the rest of the side detail and I should be close to painting, probably next weekend. Decals? Yeah, as if anyone had any. We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
