Thanks for all the feedback and intrest guys. Much appreciated!
Things are proving a little trickier than expected. The tower was/ is coming together fine until I went to add these 1/35 bolts from Meng to the panels.
Great detail but I thought they would come off the strip more easily. Tried a fresh new 10a blade. Then my clippers. Both struggled and didn't get a clean cut.
Dunno if I need a pair of those clippers at 70quid or so lol.
I'm going to try heating them and see if they snip off easier.
Plan B is, well, it's no bolts lol. I just thought it might look a bit odd without. But it is alot of work lol.
But here's the bones of the tower build. Pringles tub was a nice diameter. Sturdy and light enough.
Clad with 0.5 styrene in panels to recreate a steel tower look .
Found this white piece of plastic thingy at work a little while back. Sawed the top off and closed that off with some styrene again.
The main part of the thingy fitted very very nicely on top of the tube.
Another issue.
I imagined a steel grated platform for the tower.
Got myself some thin 30 mesh steel woven wire. Looks good, matches the scale quite nicely imo but was a bugger to cut. With limited tools anyway.
Tried with large scissors. Worked to an extent but was bending it too.
Got a circle marked and trimmed it off with a rotary. But I don't want the tube just sitting on the platform. I want it coming up through it.
So I cut
an inner circle out. But then trying to cut the outside circle area - which I thought was the easy bit- but it was just too awkward to cut and keep still etc. So thats that out of the window!
So plan B is textured sheet from Green stuff world. It's 1/48 but l think it might be ok. Which will be easier to add handrails etc too anyway.
But with a washing machine repair paid for today I'm skint for now!
Probably back into it next week. Cheers!
