Thanks, guys. I appreciate the support. I'm maintaining my optimism about my future and life in general....just taking things now a day at a time. When I do get back to building again it's going to be full steam ahead. I'm looking forward to that.
Getting caught up with posting my previous progress.
This is the line bender I'm using at the TechShop. It makes bending the acrylic a piece of cake.
And the adjustable fence for bending to the correct angle.
The main challenge with bending the 1/4" acrylic is that it tends to want to bend to a particular radius every time and not the right radius. The radius it wants to bend to is too small. On some 1/8" acrylic test pieces I realized that the outside radius of those bends is just about right for the inside radius on the 1/4" acrylic. So I made a form to bend over to force the 1/4" acrylic into the right shape. These photos show that process.
This is a mockup with the first test piece of the 1/4" acrylic just to get a sense of the size of it. The 2 nacelles are test pieces and both starboard nacelles.
It's really cool seeing it take shape finally. I love the size of it. Going to be a lot of fun to paint and weather at this scale.