{"id":2280,"date":"2009-03-19T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2009-03-19T19:15:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:15:53","slug":"in-progress-%c2%bb-yt-1380f-corellian-light-freighter-%c2%bb-hull-lamination-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-yt-1380f-corellian-light-freighter-%c2%bb-hull-lamination-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress \u00c2\u00bb YT-1380f Corellian Light Freighter \u00c2\u00bb Hull Lamination Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I began laminating the outside of the bondo with styrene sheet. I also forgot to mention WHY I did the balls\/bondo thing and didn&#8217;t just add the styrene over the ribs. Simply enough I&#8217;m clumsy and heavy-handed and would had crushed the shell without the underneath support. Plus it gives something solid in which to mount things. Mostly my accidental destructiveness though. Once the .020&#8243; styrene wedges were epoxied into place I trimmed the edges took my sander to it all to blend it all together. Then I cut out the groove for the cabin tube and glued that into place and added a little styrene on the right-hand side to blend that in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" title=\"cf-build-11\" src=\"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cf-build-11-460x273.jpg\" alt=\"cf-build-11\" width=\"460\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cutting the slot wasn&#8217;t as easy as I thought it&#8217;d be due to the balls. They acted as bearings with my various cutting tools and the blades just rolled over them. So I ended up slicing, snapping and breaking the slot out a little at a time. And whatever balls fell out were saved for future use. Why throw them out? Markings were added to other cuts I&#8217;ll need to make like for the escape pod notch and the engine area. After doing my next cuts I&#8217;ll apply some putty to fill in any gaps between the laminated sheets and add some styrene strip to the edges to close off that unsightly mess.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" title=\"cf-build-12\" src=\"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cf-build-12-460x263.jpg\" alt=\"cf-build-12\" width=\"460\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ffichtenfoo.net%2Fblog%2Fin-progress-%25c2%25bb-yt-1380f-corellian-light-freighter-%25c2%25bb-hull-lamination-complete%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=trebuchet+ms\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 3px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I began laminating the outside of the bondo with styrene sheet. I also forgot to mention WHY I did the balls\/bondo thing and didn&#8217;t just add the styrene over the ribs. Simply enough I&#8217;m clumsy and heavy-handed and would had crushed the shell without the underneath support. Plus it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-yt-1380f-corellian-light-freighter-%c2%bb-hull-lamination-complete\/\"><span>Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,56],"tags":[201,346,340,337,343,338,341,121,342,68,200,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}