I spent last night working on my Han in Carbonite. I tried to heat up the lowest panel to see if it would bend if it got hot enopugh. I had it hot to the touch and it was still quite brittle. I decided I had to just glue it in the frame as it was. I marked the pieces where I felt they would be centered in the frame and glued them down (after dremelling and sanding all the edges).
The curve of the pieces and the eneveness proved to be a challenge (and here I thought this project would be easy). Once I had lots of glue around the edges I set various weights and heavy objects to hold it down flat. Didn't work too well. I took a 2x4 length of plywood and ran it down the middle (lengthways), and tried to use spreader bars at the ends to attempt to flatten the curvature and hold the edges down for the glue to set. It didn't work too well..I guess the $9 clamps were not good enough. I ended up usning a c-clamp at the top end (by Han's head) and clamping it from the outside. I wanted to avoid this because if I clamped form the inside I could leave them there.
Tonight I will try to cut lengths of plywood to brace the panel against the front of the frame (they will wedge it from the back of the frame). That should work. This will make it look kinda bad fromt he back, but you wont see that. I may make a cover for the back after al is said and done, but I don't want this to get too heavy.
I didn't have enough time to get any work done on R2's leg.
2 comments:
How much and where did you get that?
It cost $500 US. I'm a memebr of the HIC builders group. The guy that made it got a few of us committed 7 months ago. He was so busy, and things kept coming up, etc etc etc. He finally got around to it, but said he wouldn't take on any more. You see similar ones pop up n ebay sometimes, but this one is a casting of the licenced replica..so it's pretty accurate.
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