Thanks folks, for all the nice comments.
Makes me want to keep going, and try harder for even better results....
I really do get a kick out of this stuff. I used to be real big into model
building when I was younger, but my eyes and hands just dont deal with
those tiny, small details very well any more.
These rigs are more my size now.
Besides, when I am done with these "Models", I get to drive them around
instead of just looking at them in an acrylic box on a shelf!!!!
Fuzaty, YES!, styrene can and will hold up to a lot of abuse.
Its not much different from the hard body material that Tamiya and the like produce. The same glues are even used.
There are master builders, far greater than I ever will be,
that build entire bodies out of the stuff, even whole rigs, frame and all.
But you have to engineer it correctly to make it strong.
For instance, on my wells, what the pics dont easily show is
after I glued the well pieces together with plastruct liquid cement
to hold them in place, I drew a line of CA into the mating joints
in a "gusset weld" fashion to give them strength.
If you look real close, you can see the "weld".
Its little things like this, that gives the pieces the ability to hold up under actual use, and not just look nice "on a shelf"....
And whats cool is, they realy look like welds LOL!!!
