I continue working. I carry the parts around in a old video box so I can have hand work with me as if I were knitting or crocheting. It's not all that different an activity.
with the silhouette I'm now refining the parts design with details which were too much trouble to cut by hand. I've keyed the cut in the circles so that they align easily.
You can see how they're keyed in the second image. Look at the top of the ring where shadow meets light. I'm pleased with the result. It now goes together without using tweezers.
I've notched the rings so that the stringers sit flush. I don't know if I got the depth right. I have a cheap set of calipers and I don't do well converting from mm to points. This is 1.5 points. 2 points looked too deep and 1 point too thin.
I hauled out the acrylics and I'm painting. I can seem to find my tube of Payne's gray.