Disruptor XL WIP 74: Disaster
Things continue to go poorly. In my efforts to repair the front left wedge, the front right fell off completely resulting in another backwards step. To fix this I had to flip the ship back over, which innitially went well but damaged the one part of the ship that was still solid and the most difficult to install.
The two rear wings that caused me so much frustration to install both came loose at the top. I had to completly remove the left wedge and re attach it, which also ment removing an engine. Miraculously I got it back on after several hours, everything was attached but only just. I attempted to straighten one of the hinges and then it fell through and then everything broke all over again, completly undoing 3 and half hours of work! To make matters worse the right side then decided to let go in the same spot as well!
I am really at a complete loss as to how to fix this. Other problems were easy to identify but this... its hard to see what went wrong much less how to fix it. I tried to add an extra lift arm underneith the hinges but that buts up against the 1x2 technic bricks holding the skin to the frame, which is still holding some how, which also makes it harder to reattach the broken section.
So now all 6 major body pannles, 4 wedges and the two panles above the hanger are now off the ship. Only the 4 corners around the hanger remain intact. So six months of work has been all for nothing! At this point I really, really hate working on this project, as every thing I attempt to fix breaks something else and I no longer have any cofidence in my designs ability to endure moving it.
Disruptor XL WIP 74: Disaster
Things continue to go poorly. In my efforts to repair the front left wedge, the front right fell off completely resulting in another backwards step. To fix this I had to flip the ship back over, which innitially went well but damaged the one part of the ship that was still solid and the most difficult to install.
The two rear wings that caused me so much frustration to install both came loose at the top. I had to completly remove the left wedge and re attach it, which also ment removing an engine. Miraculously I got it back on after several hours, everything was attached but only just. I attempted to straighten one of the hinges and then it fell through and then everything broke all over again, completly undoing 3 and half hours of work! To make matters worse the right side then decided to let go in the same spot as well!
I am really at a complete loss as to how to fix this. Other problems were easy to identify but this... its hard to see what went wrong much less how to fix it. I tried to add an extra lift arm underneith the hinges but that buts up against the 1x2 technic bricks holding the skin to the frame, which is still holding some how, which also makes it harder to reattach the broken section.
So now all 6 major body pannles, 4 wedges and the two panles above the hanger are now off the ship. Only the 4 corners around the hanger remain intact. So six months of work has been all for nothing! At this point I really, really hate working on this project, as every thing I attempt to fix breaks something else and I no longer have any cofidence in my designs ability to endure moving it.