OK, Its been a while but here we go. Apart from some of the electronics there hasnt been much progress because i kept wondering whether or not to put her together before i started painting the detail. I decided i needed try for an Aztec Pattern of some kind so had to figure how i was going to do that without spending any more money! I downloaded a set of Aztec Patterns but cutting them out by hand onto frisket was becoming a real pain so i decided to see what the wife had in her craft room that could help, i found these two little machines!
The Cricut is an electronic die cutting machine, convert the Aztec Masks jpegs to .SVG, import them into some software and set to cut, well if it had really been that easy i wouldn't be as behind as i am but you get the idea. You end up, eventually with these.
Check that they fit loosely, trim with a scalpel and then find this machine!
The Xyron coats the back pf the paper with an even spread of glue which means they can go directly onto the model, a bit like frisket but much easier. Positioning was a little difficult but i got there in the end.
Once they are in position, get on with the masking:
Spray with Gunmetal on top of that rattle can aluminium.
and Voila!
There is an issue now in that i used some vaseline to cover the windows that would appear under the Aztec Pattern, as you can see that didn't go as to plan as it could have so i will need to do some tidying up there somehow but i am in a much better place than i was and i learnt some more skills. What more could i ask for.
Any comments always greatly appreciated. Thanks for following the build, apologies for the delay!