Its not a PUMA
Putting Prototype 2 together
So as I clipped, scraped, blew, and glued my way through my second prototype I thought it would help to put down some notes to assist the next iteration.
- I am generally happy as a scale modeler of the detail presenting @1/100. The glazing is super cool but wondering if I could do more
- My model could still do with higher resolution. At this scale it kind of gets away with it but it could do better and I’d like to model it to withstand someone scaling to 32mm (1/48). But this maybe a long term goal.
- I’ve had to scrape away much material to get a good fit. This may have something to do with my antialiasing setting for this print as I wanted to smooth more of the polys. Generally the antialiasing worked well, though a few details present in the model are difficult to determine. And with too much knife work to get the larger pieces to fit nicely I’ll have to check my tolerances and tweak all male/female fits.
- Its tail heavy. Though I’ve done some hollowing out, when I put it on a battle front flight stand its noticeably tail heavy and I don’t think magnets alone will cope.
Next steps will be to finish a model with what parts I have and address the above.
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