So now i have a nearly finished model made of plastic and a nowhere near finished model made of wood and filler. I wanted to highlight the differences in build quality between the two. and so this is the stage to show that. From the point i was at with the wooden model i would of had to spend literally all my time sanding the filler back down. The problem was that as the filler was sanded down it started to reveal the wooden skeleton of the model. This was the material that i was trying to cover as it was the surface that was reacting with the paint, so more filler had to be applied before it could be shaped and smoothed.
The plastic model also took some hard graft to get to this stage but the joy was i could leave the printer to do its magic and give me a much better starting point than the wood model i already had.
As you can see there is a difference with the shape of the hand grip. this is because i found the curvature of the new model was more comfortable. So... on with the blog and the build
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