Excellent work Curt, I can almost smell the dust! What color did you use?
Another inspiring model for the IDF fans!!! Well done Curt.
Quoted TextCurt, very good job on your MK 4 LIC.
The cable guide for the 50 Cal looks good too, what you use to replicate it?
Thanks, Donny. Actually, the cable conduit was a little more involved than it needed to be. I started with a 0.75mm plastic rod, cut to length. Then, I cut a few pieces of scrap photo etch brass, and bent the pieces about 20 degrees. These pieces I glued to the bottom of the plastic rod, to replicate the 'feet' that you see toward the front of the cable conduit. Then, because the 'back' side of the conduit in smooth (i.e. doesn't have those 'feet'), I filled in the back from the top of the plastic rod with thinly rolled epoxy, then used super glue to make the back side (relatively) smooth. Then I painted. I thought at first that it was supposed to be hull color, but then I noticed in the pictures I got of that area that the conduit appears to be a dull steel color, obviously not painted on the real thing. I tried to duplicate that as best I could.
I know there HAS to be a better/easier way (well, there is, the photo etch part that I ruined), but this sort of worked.
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