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Step 8Final Assembly of the figure!
The final step involves putting it all together!
1) Attach the Waist Working with a ladder and a helper, two ladders if you have them, carefully lift the waist into place. The larger tubes we made earlier need to be cut to fit from the inside of the crotch plate of the waist to the top of the leg plates, then hot glued into place. Have your helper hold the waist in position and do this visually from several steps back to insure it looks right. This is another tricky step with some guesstimating involved! Once I had the tubes cut to the right size and tested the fit, I measured the position of the tubes to various points of the inside of the waist bottom edge. We then lifted the waist back off the legs, glued the tubes in position according to the measurements. Once dry, we lifted it back into place over the leg posts. A perfect fit!
2) Attach the Torso Again, working with a ladder and a helper, two ladders preferred, carefully lift the torso into place sliding it over the box support coming out of the top of the waist section. Insert your wooden dowels to secure. Sorry but I don't have a picture of this step!
3) Attach Arms Working with your ladders, the arms are inserted, some rotation of these to get them through the snug holes is necessary. I decided to use a toggle bolt attached to a machine screw inserted through each arm peg to essentially pull the arms towards each other from inside the body. See the pictures for this. A bit difficult inserting the machine screws and toggle bolt which can only be done once the arms are partially inserted into the body and from above through the neck hole. This was done using a scissor lift at Eyebeam as I was now working nearly 15' up! Be careful and remember friends with scissor lifts are a good thing! ;-)
4) Create Polygons for the Gaps As I noted previously, by lowering the polygon count on separate body sections in Blender, this created some missing areas where the various parts attached to each other. Once the overall figure is together, it is necessary to measure and cut various polygon shapes that were either glued or velcroed into place at the top of the legs, the top of the waist area and at the neck (do the neck area before erecting the figure or you will have a very difficult time of it!). I made all of the polygon shapes to attach to the next lower body parts so it would all come apart and hopefully go together again next time I display the project. I also made one of the final polygons between the waist and the torso secured with velcro so it could be removed for access to the pegs for disassembly at the end of my Eyebeam show.
1) Attach the Waist Working with a ladder and a helper, two ladders if you have them, carefully lift the waist into place. The larger tubes we made earlier need to be cut to fit from the inside of the crotch plate of the waist to the top of the leg plates, then hot glued into place. Have your helper hold the waist in position and do this visually from several steps back to insure it looks right. This is another tricky step with some guesstimating involved! Once I had the tubes cut to the right size and tested the fit, I measured the position of the tubes to various points of the inside of the waist bottom edge. We then lifted the waist back off the legs, glued the tubes in position according to the measurements. Once dry, we lifted it back into place over the leg posts. A perfect fit!
2) Attach the Torso Again, working with a ladder and a helper, two ladders preferred, carefully lift the torso into place sliding it over the box support coming out of the top of the waist section. Insert your wooden dowels to secure. Sorry but I don't have a picture of this step!
3) Attach Arms Working with your ladders, the arms are inserted, some rotation of these to get them through the snug holes is necessary. I decided to use a toggle bolt attached to a machine screw inserted through each arm peg to essentially pull the arms towards each other from inside the body. See the pictures for this. A bit difficult inserting the machine screws and toggle bolt which can only be done once the arms are partially inserted into the body and from above through the neck hole. This was done using a scissor lift at Eyebeam as I was now working nearly 15' up! Be careful and remember friends with scissor lifts are a good thing! ;-)
4) Create Polygons for the Gaps As I noted previously, by lowering the polygon count on separate body sections in Blender, this created some missing areas where the various parts attached to each other. Once the overall figure is together, it is necessary to measure and cut various polygon shapes that were either glued or velcroed into place at the top of the legs, the top of the waist area and at the neck (do the neck area before erecting the figure or you will have a very difficult time of it!). I made all of the polygon shapes to attach to the next lower body parts so it would all come apart and hopefully go together again next time I display the project. I also made one of the final polygons between the waist and the torso secured with velcro so it could be removed for access to the pegs for disassembly at the end of my Eyebeam show.
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