Do everyone a favour - post the progress here with linked images.... facebook is not for everyone.

I do look forward to seeing what you come up with. Are you a teacher?


Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

More pictures up: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 ... bb7eedc17e is still the link

I didn't get as much done today, hit the beach and saw Tron so that took up quite a bit of time. I probably spent just over an hour all up today.

So second layer on the right hand side pretty much complete... cutting the interior chamber is fiddly.... and I am at the "need to find replacement blade" point for my scalpel... so time to clean the office a bit!

The facebook photos are open, so you don;t need an account to view them, but I know FB can be blocked for some... (I am loading them to facebook to get some friends watching and interested) so I might add them to my photobucket as well and link them through here, might not have time tomorrow... but soon

Looks like you're off to a great start. I suggest putting the trim pieces on when each layer is finished, rather than waiting until the end. There are several that would have been much easier if done that way.

Keep going, you will have really accomplished something when this is all done (it makes everything else seem easy by comparison)

Stick with it - the finished gun is wonderful, well worth the effort to build. Mine is on the wall in the gaming room

You are in the home stretch! Well done so far. Great pics by the way. Keep em coming...you are almost there.

Looking great!

Tools of the trade:


I love my FoamWerks cutter!


Starting to look gun shaped:


Time for some depth:


Entering the 3rd dimension:


Time for some trimming:


Starting to come together:


Pew Pew:


Cowling and barrell


Lower handle and lenses


Mad props! - Super glue is a must:


Transparencies added:


Getting it together:


Top Down:


Now to strike fear into the the hearts of my enemies:
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Looks fantastic! Yet another project to add to my list of things to build.... *sigh*

More pics, this time of the display stand:









This is just balanced, I actually need to mount it to a wall now



As for the questions about the foamwerks cutter, I find it awesome, but I havn't tried building a cube yet, which would be the ultimate test.

The best example from the pics I have would be this one:



those 4 "supports" are all cut with the cutter and were cut in a single pass on each edge.

There can be slight variations in cut placement (less than 1mm off my intended cuts normally) and cutting off thin strips (2mm or so) will almost always fail (the blade tends to track off towards the edge that close).

Sometimes the bottom level of paper isn't cut 100% but easy to fix with a craft knife.

Outside corners are easy with sight over cuts, inside corners also need overcuts (where this won;t show) or finishing off with a craft knife (because the cutting blade is angled so the cuts are "longer" on the top of the foamcore than on the bottom).

I love it, but really can only compare it to doing things by hand, and that drives me crazy - But this project has improved my freehand cutting of foamcore significantly, and I am glad of that.