Wednesday 18 November 2009

Progress Update


Here is the lastest photos of my model of Villa Savoye. Here you can see my baseboard all masked up to reduce chances of scratchs and marks on the paint. I have now nearly finished assembling the ground floor. All I need to complete is the rounded glass walls at the front, the interior/exterior ramp that will give the model some structure and to put all windows in place. I have had a few set backs to painting, such as being given wrong thinners to mix with the paint. These thinners are yellow and have given some of my interior walls a shade of yellow. New thinners will be brought and I will have to respray it all including my baseboard.





This is the Interior/Exterior ramp, which was going to be put into the final model but I came across quite a few problems. Certain dimentions were wrong, the ramp was constructed in the wrong way and the use of tensol was a bad choice. I got some more laser cuttings for the ramp done and began planning on how to build it again. Instead of having all seperate pieces painted then being stuck together, I have decided to split the ramp into two parts, assemble using dichlo (which shall give it a much cleaner finish) and then spray white.



I will have this completed by tomorrow ready to be put into the model. For now I will not permanently stick this in as there may be some minor adjustments later on in the project.

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Ramp Issues

The interior/exterior ramp has been causing quite a lot of problems within my build. I completed it yesterday but I have decided to make it again as it isnt up to scratch. I am going to remake the ramp but using a different process, instead of painting all seperate parts and then sticking together with tensol. I am going to laser cut all the acrylic and key using 400 grade wet and dry. Then I am going to assemble the two seperate parts with Dichlo and then spray them both. Once this is dry I will attach the two separate parts together. This will leave me with a much cleaner model. I also think it will fit together better by splitting the model into two separate parts that will be attached together after painting. I will attach pictures later this evening.

Tuesday 10 November 2009

Laser Cutting Issues

Today I began assembling the ground floor elevations. I noticed a problem with the laser cut acrylic windows. They are 0.4 - 0.6mm too small. The laser cutter's beam removes 0.4 - 0.5mm of material when it cuts. I will now have to experiment with a single window and using the offset tool to make the window 0.4 - 0.6mm bigger to see which one fits into the elevations.

Update!

The laser cutter takes off 0.3 and I have used the offset tool to make the windows 0.15 bigger. They now fit with a little bit of give so that they will still fit even when painted.