First day back at work was stressful and destroyed the week off in one morning. The rest of the week didn't go any better. Hence the inspiration for the power plant fizzled out and I decided to do something simpler. There were two corridor sections I made back April 2020 and I wanted to keep the same feel rather than create another. As these two new corrdor will be against the stretch with pipe-work, I opted for the simpler one. However replicating the removable walls was not the simple I was going for. At least it's done and I can start adding interesting details to it... if I have any ideas.
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While I'm waiting for new tools to arrive to continue/finish off my Tau towers, I decided to switch back to my SM HQ. I still had two corridor section and the planned power room at the end. So the room would be three sections long. However this may be too big to fill up as I intend to use one of these electrical components I had in my bit boxes. Looking at the layout of my floor, this was situated next to the Server Room and the Armoury (currently only in my blog posts ~May 2020). I may end up relocating some of these rooms :(
Bit by bit I managed to get this piece painted. I liked the look of the white pipes hence didn't paint it at all. Even the evidence of the joins and the marks made from the glue didn't look out of place so I left it as is. The front wall is a bit bland, but I didn't have any enthusiasm to add any more detail and wanted to move onto something more interesting. The third piece that I originally planned; corridor piece with the pipes running down the side, would have to wait.
I made a few minor additions to the Boiler Room, one seen in this picture, but also extending one of the pipe structures so the front of the room didn't look so empty (not in the picture). After googling for a few pictures, I was tempted to make the pipes different bright colours so the place didn't look so drab. I haven't fully decided yet, hence one of the reason this piece is taking so long to paint (and the lack of time due to the games I play). The front wall to the sub HQ room has a painted pipe that I was wondering whether to replace with a real one connecting the Boiler room to the Server Room... I'm making this too complex!
snugly and the base then slots into the original hole in the room. There is a thin piece of plastic glued in place, hence the slot base is slightly raised. This is so that it doesn't drop through when I move the room about. Two magnets removed, but I put one on the single badly made SM that supposed to be working at the console.
The pipe above the Toxic Waste Disposal was broken off again so that it could be finely adjusted again to align with the pipe above. The black piece that the pipe sits onto is some plastic from electronic component, hence easy to pull off any previous glue used. In this case it was Uhu glue, so that made it easy to just plonk it down in the model, place the floor on top and use tweezers to finely align it.
Placing the newly comer pieces into the space, I realised some corridor pieces didn't quite fit smoothly together. These sections were made before I had the solid sanding discs. Hence rather than paint the second room (yes I was avoiding it), I sanded the old pieces so they fit more smoothly. I decided to use a dead-end section (unpainted piece) as the template to ensure all other pieces fit into. Although I'm not sure if this will work too well, as all other sections fitted into my master template, but still had issues fitting into each other :( I also planning to modify the stand within the sub HQ room as the small magnet doesn't keep it in place due to the weight of the models on top.
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