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Well, you guessed it, I couldn't wait for tonight.

I went ahead and pulled it.
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I have surface defects, but its just the way I need it. I also ripped the mold, but I think I can get another pull or two out of it.


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Hey guys,

     My schedule has been crappy lately. I am ready for some work this weekend on the back half mold and some finish work on the front half of my torso. I have the whole weekend, i'm gonna make the most of it.

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Okay,

     It's saturday about 6:19 am. I did get to use my new orbital hand sander yesterday on torso no. 3. Because I put the resin/glass on so thick I was able to simply sand out quite a few inperfections. I also added a three-fourths amount of fiberglass to the others. I sanded that down and will do some more sanding after coffee.

I don't have any pics yet. My expensive camera has either been dropped or mis used because its eating batteries as soon as I put 'em in!

My wife took my cell phone out of town by accident, my Mavica can't down load pics on new computer.

I'll figure out a way to get some pics taken and loaded.

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Well guys, let me apologize first. I had too many visitors to get much done. I did however get a very light coating of bondo over the fiberglass to fill in the imperfections. I also didn't get enough practice with my new sander. I'm dangerous until I get the knack. I ended up putting on about three applications, took it down so far with the sander, than hand sanded to do the job right. That's okay, i've learned a lot and I will do some more on it tomorrow. They cut my hours down at work, so i'll be more available to get some stuff done.

Oh yeah, here's a pic.
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Finally got a camera too. My cell!

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Well guys, just a quick update. I was only able to do a little bit of sanding on the front of the torso, but i'm pretty darn close to done. I had to rebuild my pond this weekend and gp to a baseball game. I have volunteer weekend coming up at my kids school.

Man oh man, summer must be here!

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Hey guys,

     Just a quick update. I did a little more sanding on the torso, but decided to take a little break and work on a shoulder bell.
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This is an original piece graciously sent to me by Brad C. I took the small shoulder bell and exploded it to fit my arm and shoulder size.


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Here is the piece with first coat of primer. I will add two to three more coats without sanding. This will only thicken the primer making it easier for me to take down completely with the 220 Grit.
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I may finish the front torso tonight.

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Well guys, a quick update. I'm taking a week off from robots. I should have realized this much earlier. My large latex mold had actually warped when I added resin causing it not to fit the back half of the original mold. Man that hurt! Jedi probably felt that one. I should have made a egg shell backing, but was guaranteed that I would not have to worrie about sagging or warping.

I'm going for broke. My wife said surprisingly, "Spend the money." I will make a 3 piece fiber glass mold with nuts and bolts on all seems. I'm doing the front and back. I did however complete the mold for the left shoulder bell. Gonna pop it loose today.

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Guess what! Happy 4th everybody! It's a good day for me because i'm over my extreme depression. Why would I be depressed you asked? As you may know I've been working on this 3po torso for like 15 years. Anyways, I kept having problems lining the copy with the back half of the original torso. After this latest attempted I found that the original torso halves do not match up! Darn it!

I don't know why I didn't check before, i'm still learning I guess.

How can this be? I contacted a good friend, my mentor Bondo Jack. Bondo jack is a living legend who has worked on all types of bondo related items. He told me the reason the two pieces don't match is because I used differn't amounts of bondo. During the curing process it heats the other bondo around it, cause it to warp. I didn't see any warping, bending of any kind. It didn't show up until I cut the torso in two halves. I guess I should have been smart enough to match the pieces up to make sure they would go back together properly. That depressed me. After all this work!!!

That's okay, I know what the problem is. I talked to a couple of guys about it and they are willing to come over and help me reattached the two halves, make repairs and make the two-two piece molds.

I"m pretty excited. I know the molds were actually good molds and the problem was from a secondary cause. This can and will be fixed, soon.

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I have faith you will prevail young Padwon!
May the Creative Force guide your skilled hands.
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Thank you Darth Braddock, I will try. Matter of fact we had scheduled a tear down and rebuild, but I happen to run into a very talented fiberglass mold guy. He builds Gotham Cruisers, B-9's and other items for people. I found he's only about 15 minutes from my house, so i'm going to check out his batmobiles and hope and pray he has a simple solution.

We may be able to reattach, and slightly bend most into the proper shape, but i'm pretty sure the neck (rear), will have to come off and be reattached.

Here's a link for some of that
http://www.geocities.com/johnfosterfochaser/torso39.html



Notice the difference in the side/rib area and the shoulder. Almost a half an inch!

I'll post some pix of his batmobiles too

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