mijob's TIE Phantom

Hello all,

thank you all for your kind words.

zathros said:

but kudos to you for your recycling paper products.

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Hello Zathros,
Yes, i love to use cereal boxes for these structures. That material is easy to work with, strong if bent correctly and (almost ) for free.

mijob said:

wait to get my hands on this one

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Patience, .... soon.

Toutenkarton said:

Superbe réalisation, c'est de l'artisanat sur mesure.

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Although I'm not speaking french,

Merci beaucoup.



Let us continue with the base.

These are the next parts just laid out.

This step is important.
Compare the height of the already glued in long Strips with the height these parts give you when pressed down into "glue position".
If there is a big difference you still can correct it by scoring a bit higher or lower and bend the parts at the desired position.
They are inside, no one will see theme anyway but they are needed to keep a even surface.



Same goes for the other two Parts.





So far so good, ready to close the base.





I dry fitted them both to make sure all slits fit nicely and then i finally glued them on.









Well, that's it for the base, here comes the " skin "



Don't worry, this is just to test if everything is fitting.
The final template will not have any white lines.

At this point i realized, that if there where some little gaps because of (the usual) "human error", the white background would shine through, so i took a black marker and tried to cover every connection. On the final template i will have this areas blacked out already.







that's it for now,

to be continued very soon.

Thank you

zathros said:

Oh come on, I think you eat a lot of cereal!

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No not really, just organized the hole family to keep them for me

Hello all,

Thank you Zathros,

i think you should see the APC structure I'm working on.











I try to get a stable structure on which i can build on, but i think i over engineered this thing. Here comes the advantage of a laser, these parts are done in a view minutes.
Doing them by hand is a nightmare. (Especially if the hands don't follow the commands of the brain )

Arggh, now i hijacked my own thread.....


Back to the Phantom Base..

Here i glued the first outer part.



Make sure it fits well.
For the final templates i will include two different versions. One 'normal' and one with slightly longer side parts to compensate if the base came out higher due to different material thickness.

Next one



And the first one from the side



Yes, i know, the fonts are different, you can choose which one you like best for you base.
This base i built only to test all parts. Based on that build i made some corrections on the final templates.

Next are the two other surfaces



and the other side



Depending on how good the middle part was glued in the center this parts will ether fit nicely or you have to trim one side a little while the other side leaves a little gap.
The blacked out strips should cover for that.

After that its the turn of the two vertical side pieces, and then we glue all parts beginning from the back to the front until we get this.

Left



Right



Back



and Front



That's it so far,

There is more to come soon.

Thank you

Hello all,

Rhaven Blaack said:

I have to say that that is a very strong stand. I really like your technique for internal formers. It makes sense.

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Thank you Sir, I'm happy that you liked it.

Here i have some shots with the ship on the base.

















I hope you like it.

But....

I will actually not use this base. As i mentioned before, this was just to test all pieces and how the two fonts look.

While i was building this one, i got the crazy idea of using LED's on the base, so i started a second on parallel to this one .

This Parts i had the laser cut out. I have neither the patience nor the ability to cut out that small Letters in such a quality.



Turned around and back glued with normal 80gr copy paper it looks like this.
Here i also used small strips of the same paper as glue tabs to cover the gaps so no light can escape.





Now for the Light. I thought because of the length of the title single leds would not evenly spread the light, so why not try Filaments. They come in different lengths, colors and voltages so I ordered some LED Filament from amazon.
This is the first time i use Filaments for my models, (Well, there is a first time for everything) and i must say, they are not so easy to handle but they look much better for this situation then LEDs would do.

I took a paper straw and split it in half.



in which i glued the filament



and that i glued to the back of the text.



That is it for now

Will continue soon

Thank you

Hello again,

thank you all for your kind comments, they are much appreciated.

Let's continue.

After that side was done, i build the other side exactly the same way (just mirrored )

Of course i had to test it. It shined nicely through the 80 gr paper, but it also shined through the white paper straws i used.
So i had to block the lite. At first i thought i would just take a black marker and paint everything but then i changed my mind.
Black absorbs light. Why absorb it if i can throw it back to the front ?

Simple kitchen Aluminum Foil could do so i covered the tubes completely with it . Here is how it looks.



While i was doing that, i also routed the cables to one side





Ready for the next steps.



These two need a core base now. I used the first base i built for testing, remember this one ?



I had to add some holes so i could fiddle the cables through the base.







These i had to make bigger because the straw at this point was a little too big and did not allow to close nicely with the bottom base. That cuts gave a little more space.



The time had come to glue them on. First i installed the cable and pulled the part as near as possible to the base leaving enough space to apply some glue.
I don't have pictures of that steps, sorry.
I applied glue only on the top surface and positioned the part. Later when it was set i glued every side surface 1 by one to the bottom base and to its neighbor.
And this is how it looks now.







That's it.

I will continue soon.

Thank you

Hello again,

I had some progress with the base.

Here i have cut out the hole to receive the switch.



and here the switch is installed.



then i continued with the "skin parts"





Next where the sides of the "funnel"





followed by the back and the front piece of the funnel
the back i had to make three times until i got the channel for the switch right.



Then came the last two pieces of the skin.



Done.

Here is a little comparison between the hand cut and the laser cut base.



I hope you liked it so far.

Almost there. there are only two more things to do.

1 - I'm waiting for a small Batteries holder to be delivered which would fit under the base.
2 - The Letters are not yet finished. Have i mentioned that i also love puzzles ?



Will be back soon.

Thank you

Hello again,

Thank you Rhaven Blaack.

i played with my puzzle and finished the Letters.

Here is the base before



and the other side



and now with inserted letters



and the other side



Basically the base is done, just waiting for the batteries box to finish the electronics and finally put the model on display.

Thank you