Sooo let's go on.
There will be a lot to report after this weekend
Where do I start?
I pretty much worked on all areas in parallel, but sorted the images by topic to keep things more manageable.
The drives were finally fastened.
Since the fiber putty is hard after 5min I held each drive individually in position and lubricated from the inside the putty with finger on it.
I actually wanted to be able to remove it and glue it at the end, but it was not necessary. After the second fiber putty operation, they held up very well
Then I came up with a brilliant idea.
For the drive I have cut 4 rounds of 1cm Plexiglas
the edges thereafter roughly chamfered by the router and not ground on purpose but only slightly polished.
The effect fits very well when all lights up
after that I prepared the original light guide plate and the new one for gluing
and glued to the Acrifix R192. Of course this worked right away (almost where it does not matter :wall: )
The result, unprocessed, perfect. No bubbles no cracks. I do not expect anything more. :heul:
Now the impression that I imagined :banana:
Then I started yesterday to put the holes for the LEDs and glue these.
3mm blue concave
Part 2. The bomb
Now I could finally dig out the thermoforming box and deep pull the bomb.
If someone wants more details just let me know.
after I cut out the bomb with scissors and sanded it reasonably straight.
Have I set a clean cut to the desired height with the Proxxon tool.
Coooooool
then I cut a ring on which I can then stick a LED stripe
Now I painted both from the inside without a primer black, because as I said, the green does not fit into the concept.
I've got 4-5 photos of the bomb or Al'kesh control panel here and only one of them is green. The others are all black.
Also, each has different symbols.
Which brings me to the next point.
I could not find a direct font for Goa'uld writing.
There are either only the gate symbols or it is referred to one of the many ancient Egyptian scriptures.
None of them would be eligible for the bomb.
I had then first made a few decals with the ancient script which I was also allowed to manually trace but that did not look good.
So I traced the font from the photo of the last post and used it.
Luckily, I could see just 10 icons to assign them 10 LEDs.
Part 3. The holder second try
The basic idea was already in my head for a while, but I still lacked the final attachment to the Alkesh itself.
As usual, "hit it and get started" I've just built it and I do not think it's that bad.
1. Create an ellipse and half close it to the circle.
This then cut out of 8mm extruded Plexiglas
Then with the router all edges chamfered to 4mm.
Now I cut a 4cm Plexiglas rod at 20 degrees.
the whole is then glued to the base plate
Now the support surface for the Alkesh.
Also cut here 8mm extruded Plexiglas and bevelled all edges to 2mm.
After that I started to bend both sides by 25 degrees each 4cm from the center.
Great the photo forget crap!
4cm from the outside I bent then by 65 degrees.
Thus I have three points that I can push into the Alkesh and under the radiators still enough space for the ball valves and sufficient supply and exhaust air
Part 4. The pillars
Just the 8mm slit Plexiglas strip was not enough for me so I cut out of 3mm Plexiglas also 8mm strips and have these all provided with Slots.
so in style
Now I've cut all the pillars exactly to length
and then stuck the 3mm Plexiglas in the offset
Now I began to prime and fill all the pillars.
until I was satisfied with the surface.
Now I stuck all pillars with foil. Similar to the sarcophagus.
Then everything again primed
and painted several times in Gold.
Last but not least part 5. The Alkesh
At the Alkesh I had to put under the res one more recess so I can put the pump directly under him.
Then I positioned the IO-Shield from below behind the radiators
Although I actually wanted to do without it, I smoothed the interior once again
everything primed
and then closed the last little holes to waterproof the whole case
The motherboard tray I have already provided with a 1K Alugrundierung and a few layers of primer
So far, so good, nice to finally see a little bit of color :banana: