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Great job with the curves looks great. I like the "clay-to-hold-the-small-styrene-strips" trick - I will use that in the future for sure!!
Man, you're killing me, I wanna see a complete test fit sooo bad!!
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Yes, yes we do. That's how cool we are.
Yup, forgot the 'i' - I always think that I am going to misspell that word as 'Viola' and get all the musicians upset BTW how do you get that little -'- above the 'a'? (like you had in your post) I always wondered . . .
very clever use of your styrene powder, always wanted to know how that worked out, could you give us some incite into its guessed cure time/ workability/ strength.
Cure time is in seconds. You have to work quickly due to the evaporating concept of the weld liquid. I usually dump out a little pile of the styrene on some surface that is NOT affected by the chemical, then make a little puddle of the weld and mix them together to make a slurry of sorts, spread it on your seam and wait till it dries. It is dry to touch in less than a minute and maybe takes 30-60 min before it is ready to sand and not be too 'rubbery'. I guess a picture is worth a thousand words:
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Wooohooo! 
Onward I go!
Maybe I'll switch now though . . . and I'm STILL waiting until you have that topic as a contest/buildoff!! I have a lot of his images saved as reference. Sweet indeed. 
No photoshop here, matey! I don't even have photoshop. It's magic. And Antigravityballs. Or maybe even just a length of styrene, some bluetack and the right camera-angle.
Gotta give me some credit
Really nice - and FAST! Scenery is top-notch. I picked up a lot of tips on this build! Thanks for the detailed WIP.
Oh, and another idea just springs to mind: As far as I know, a sniper never (or seldom) works alone, so maybe I'll scratch a small companion droid with some serious binoculairs.
with this post I hope to change that!
) Then welded them together with ProWeld by Ambroid which basically melts the plastic to itself without leaving a glue residue. Then I started drawing them along sanding blocks that I made up of various grits of sandpaper glued to blocks of Corian.
click on the Mechaskunk link to the right of this post - you won't be disappointed! As you can see from the picture below, the best way I have found to control these small parts is with a simple magnet. At least this way these suckers aren't rolling around and falling off the workbench! You can also see how nice a fit the chest piece made:
The chalk notation is the icing on the cake.
There's a ton of info here. Before I start a build I usually end up spending a couple hours researching just from this site too. Hope to see some of your models soon!
