lancer525, that mercury thing could take a while. How is it coming?
Scott
Well, Scott... It's moving at the Speed of Government.
After a false-start, entailing the discovery that I had constructed some parts of it incorrectly, and having an exceptionally warped framework, I decided to scrap the first bit, and start again. Unfortunately, as the instructions aren't really all that clear, as to which part goes where, and in what orientation (would have helped prevent me from putting some pieces backwards) I'm having to do a lot of guesswork. In some instances, the parts sheets don't correspond to the pictures of the parts sheets in the instructions, which causes some further issues.
Also, I am having the damnedest time figuring out how to glue one edge of a piece of cardstock to the edge of another piece of cardstock, without having gaps. Think of the shape of an L and imagine how difficult it is to make that L out of nearly one-dimensional stuff. I tried about 8 different times to build the first part like this, a ring with a flange, and by golly I couldn't get it to work without cutting the edge with some small tabs on it, to give it a surface to glue to. I apparently don't know what I'm doing! LOL
And on top of all that, I ran out of the paper I had bought to do the first part of the build, so I'm now waiting for another purchase to be delivered.
I do NOT intend to give up. I'll be hanged if I am going to let some paper defeat me!