Thursday, July 29, 2010

Ork Land Battleship, Part 16

I'll tell you one thing.  Riveting isn't.
Port-forward track

Starboard-forward track
Port-aft track

Starboard-aft track

These pictures just shows the exteriors of the tracks--I had to do a bunch of riveting on the lower parts of the interiors of the tracks.  I estimate there is something like 1,300 individual rivets on these pieces.  The work isn't hard, it's just very tedious.  In the end I think it's worth it, as the rivets add a lot to the model and make it look ten times better than if all the rivets were not there.

4 comments:

Papa JJ said...

That's an insane amount of rivets, wow! I'm really impressed by this undertaking and imagine it will be quite a behemoth when finished. Very cool stuff!

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Anonymous said...

"Riveting isn't."

That is truly awesome writing. I smiled, then posted a comment, then, worried that my comment would be taken as sarcasm and not actual praise, I deleted that comment and wrote this one.

I've written an entire paragraph in response to your two words. Can you tell I'm an English major?

Dan Eldredge said...

I didn't take the original comment as sarcasm, that's ok.

I was originally going to say "Riveting isn't riveting", but then I decided that a "less is more" approach would be better. :)