The Tau Manta Project is FINISHED!!! Yay :)

The long awaited Tau Manta Project has finally been completed and more details and pictures are to follow in the coming days. Check out he tap on upper right of this blog page to see the work on this epic project. Enjoy :)

Rick and Mary

Tau manta

Pinning for strength 

the opposite side 

almost together

a near dark picture of the lights

and absolute darkness, or as close as we could get.  I think these will work fine for running lights....

Manta Coockpit

 Drilling holes in the "Glass" to cut it out, here you can also see the wound the Overlord gave me to show her displeasure with me over the mass amount of resin toy taking up here favorite hiding place.

 The inside the cockpit.

 Windscreen removed. and will be replaced with a transparent one, so that the LED can shine through showing the Blacksun Filter

 Inside

and the side before I smoothed out the drill holes.  Fortunately the cast was thin enough that I could cut it with an exacto.

More Manta

 Here I have broken apart the Cockpit section from the Weapons Operators section to repair the dents that were caused by FW removing the model too quickly from the mold.  This also allows me to re-align the fit, as there was a ledge along the seem.

 This shot showcases how very unclean the break from the mold is.

 Here I've rejoined the two sections with JB weld epoxy(that stuff is awesome!!).

 Here I've allowed it to dry, and sanded the excess off.

 After putting JB weld kwik in the holes I've sanded the excess away.  This allows additional holding power and eliminates part of the gap in the seam.

and a close-up of the repaired dent, I will have to re-scribe some of the panel lines, but I figure I,ll have to do that anyway as some of them are very shallow.

More on the Manta

 The Overlord is very unamused!!!!

 A bent Drone Carriage

 Boiling water, and now it's straight...

And I got the Drones loose from being glued in place without breaking them

Building Number 50

The Overlord is not amused by the big resin thingy in her favorite hiding place!!!!  Kitteh will not tolerate this!!!

Tau Manta

Okay I am calling this the "Tau Manta Project"  Or "Building Number 50".  I don't normally post WIP pics,but was asked by the customer to post as I did.  Unfortunately,  this beauty is number 8 in my customer queue.  That being said it will get love and attention at least one hour per day until my other projects are finished and delivered.