While waiting to start up on this again, I didn't share how the planetary sensor dome was scratch built.
Stacked styrene ring with rocket tube adapter to for the profile.
Grooved sheet styrene for the ring detail edge. hand pulled to hold the shape of the base ring's taper.
Then glued into position.
Paper template for the shape of the particians.
The patrician part is cut to shape.
Patrician glued into place.
Making the dome... I cast the surface of a 4" and a 4.5" Christmas ball.
Mold
Resin
Sand to shape.
The outer ring detail is cut from flat sheet styrene, then sanded to an airfoil-like shape.
To meet the contour of a dome, it is hand-pulled over a wood ball.
The resin dome casting is taped down to a Lazy Suzan acting as a type of lathe and a Drafteres cumbas is used to scribe in the radii.
The styrene detail is glued into place and other details are added. Dome from start to finish...
Sections of the ring base can now be removed to make the flood light patricians.
The dome profile at the bottom of the primary hull had to be removed so the Planetary Sensor assembly could better be fit into place.
To finish the sides of the partitions, the assembly was taped down to the hull and over-sized parts were glued into place.
Then trimmed to shape...
To give the assembly strength for casting, slow cure resin was injected into all the cavities.
Finished Planetary Dome Assembly on the primary hull bottom half master.
The Lunar part vs Mine.
Tracy
