keeping calm and carrying on...
Good evening,
With only 9 days to go, I seem to have found myself in a worse position than in 2010 when I exhibited KIAB
A dose of bad luck in that the laser cutter at work broke (and has just been reinstated today) has meant that a few things won't be done in quite the way I had envisaged them, however am trying my best to get a reasonable display on show.
This weekend when I fly back there to BCN there is still loads to do including finalising the wiring, finishing the fiddleyards and connecting boards, fascia panels, lighting, installing the signals, painting the third rail...I could go on...
Some progress this week on the canopy though. It started in BCN last Saturday with the soldering of a brass structure onto which I would attach the more cosmetic elements. The legs have been made in piano wire and these have been then covered in small plastic I beams (so the wire runs between the web of the beam on the non viewing side) to give some stability to it.
A simple jig has been formed at work and the idea is (was) to transport this structure back this weekend and install on the platform. The most challenging bit which I was dreading was forming the curved structure of the canopy. A couple of trials ended in disaster so this evening after work I laser cut a base in 1mm perspex and some roof profiles which were fided at 10mm centres so I could wrap the corrugated sheet around it. All was fine until I tried to get the curve to hold and my initial fears of it not retaining its shape were upon me.
This has since been scrapped but talking with my colleague who runs our model shop in the office, he suggested I try and form my own roof from 0.2mm perspex which we will laser cut tomorrow morning first thing and I will try and reattach it at lunchtime. Then there is the fascia which as been drawn and is awaiting cutting.
So I left work a bit low this evening as it wasn't where I wanted it to be at this time.
I attach a few pics of the canopy structure (excuse my still shocking soldering but it won't be seen) and I realise that this will be the last long distance/boxfile layout I produce as despite the size there are too many complications.
More worrying is that my eyesight (already shocking) is just not up to small stuff anymore...
- 12
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