Project : Far Cry

[Rankenphile]

Incredibly ambitious, and incredibly gorgeous. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this project's progress and can't wait to see the rest. Fantastic work.

[Canadian Eh?]

nice job, keep it up

[Zero_Limits]

This is looking absolutly AWSOME! its going to kick ass once its finished!!

Thanks man, I hope it does turn out good. A lot will be riding on the paint job!

Incredibly ambitious, and incredibly gorgeous. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this project's progress and can't wait to see the rest. Fantastic work.

Woah!!! Thanks very much for the kind words Rankenphile.

nice job, keep it up

Thanks dude. Will be speeding up the work on this actually :p

[Zero_Limits]

Well its 3:25am and I’m writing updates, FUN FUN!!! lol This is an update to show last nights work. There will be an update with tonight’s work a few minutes after this is posted.

So last night I just spent more time working on the rocks down there side where the water will be running through. I will show what I have done on one side as I have done pretty much the same thing on the other.

To start the night off I put a thin layer of filler over the whole side and smoothed it out as well as I could with my finger (Wearing gloves of course)

I then sanded it a bit with some nice rough 40g sand paper. I didn’t want it to be dead smooth so you will notice some ups and downs highlighted by the different colours of the sanded and non sanded filler.

After that I went over and dabbed on more filler using a very coarse paint brush to give the surface a rock like texture.

This is a close up to show the texture. I may add some actual rocks from the mould to make it look a little more realistic if I have time in the next couple of days.

Also I added the drain holes in the bottom area. One here on the right side at the lowest point.

And one on the left at the lowest point.

This is just a pic of the mega cool wood twirly thingi that was made when I drilled through the MDF with a 12mm drill bit… aint it pretty :p

Another update will be up within the next half hour or so.

[Zero_Limits]

Now for the update of tonight’s work.

I was quiet happy with the amount of work I got done tonight. I thought what I have done was going to take much longer then it did. Anyway I know you guys want the pics more then anything so here is what I did…

Cut out some frame type pieces, 12 of them to be exact.

I also cut some little supports for them out of some triangle balsa wood. I cut more, the pic only shows a few.

Then I glued them onto the base.

Even with just those bits glued on there it was strong enough to hold the case up.

Then I added some wood sheets. I used some wood that I got for free from work. I think the boss said it was a type of balsa that is grown here in New Zealand. It is certainly a lot tougher then your average balsa wood.

As you can see from the pic above I didn’t want to just continue the sides down straight like an extension of the top case. So I put a little angle on this bottom section. To make it look a little more interesting I decided to make the rounded corners a little different again. I used the lid from my filler container as a pattern.

Cut a bit of balsa the same and stuck it in with thin CA.

Added a few bits here, not quiet sure what to call them.

Then a few more.

Here you get an idea of what its going to look like. Far better then just continuing the sides down I think.

Finally I sheeted it with 0.8mm plactruct. I only got one side done as I realized once I had finished it that it was 1:20am and decided to pack up.

That’s all for now. I will be doing more work on it tomorrow so look out for an update if I can be bothered writing one :p For now Seeing as its just after 4am I think I should head off to bed :p Thanks for looking people

[Scotty]

That just made this mod better than ANY!

looking great, can't wait to see water down those slopes *hint* lol

just after 4 ther and its nearly 6pm here wow time difference sucks.

[DaveW]

Wow, this is looking great! Last time i checked this thread it was just an idea. I can't believe the progress you've made since i last checked. Great work!

-Dave

[Zero_Limits]

That just made this mod better than ANY!

looking great, can't wait to see water down those slopes *hint* lol

just after 4 ther and its nearly 6pm here wow time difference sucks.

Haha yeah man, that twirly thingi rules. I should have kept it lol.

Water isn’t to far off now. Was positioning the pump and some tubing tonight. The bottom is all sealed up with fiberglass and I should be getting the rest of the bits I need to complete the loop tomorrow

Wow, this is looking great! Last time i checked this thread it was just an idea. I can't believe the progress you've made since i last checked. Great work!

-Dave

Thanks! Much more to come over the next week

Update to come within the next half hour.

[crenn]

Good thing I'm not going to bed for about another hour or so!

[Rankenphile]

Question - what have you done to waterproof around the windows?