After trying to form one of the larger lower shrouds I found a problem.
GOTCHA: Look at the ruler next to the shroud sides. One side is 1/32" wider than the other! You couldn't get a good fit on the BT-60 side of the adapter.
Here's what I mean -
The wide end of the shroud is uneven.
TIP: Always scan and print up extra shrouds. You never know when you might need extras. I wish every kit included more than one!
Here's my quick-fix -
I cut the arc a little wider on the outside. It's worth a try!
Hrm... Looks to me that the distortion may have been introduced during some of the various steps used in the printing of the pattern sheets. If you work with printers hooked up to computers, you'll probably notice that the resolution in horizontal and vertical can often be different (i.e. number of dots per linear measurement may be different in horizontal and vertical directions). This means that unless you've scaled the output appropriately to take into account this variation, your printouts may come out distorted.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1990s Revell produced some plastic model kits of subjects from the SciFi TV series Babylon 5. The models were based on the CG used in the television show. The problem was that the CG was rendered for NTSC video (where horizontal and vertical resolutions were not the same -- i.e. pixels are not square), and the tooling for the kit was designed with the assumption that the CG had square pixels. As a result, the model kits ended up being somewhat distorted due to differences in scaling of X and Y directions. As a result of this error, the model of the Starfury space fighter came out a bit "stubby" (i.e. its dimensions along the fore-aft dimension was "compressed").
Hi Naoto,
ReplyDeleteThis shroud shouldn't have made it in a kit. After I print things like this I always double check them, especially if they are going into an Odd'l Rockets kit.