Thanks Chris
It wasnt that hard to decide to mutilate my machined shockmount for the sake of having a real one on my pack
But yeah, i think you must be right when you say im nuts...i got very inspired and motivated by your texturing tutorial and after some not so great results of playing with texturing spray i had the silly idea of doing this whole thing with my demel, haha >.<
The spray i had was pretty easy to scrape off with a fingernail when it was fully dry and i thought it would be cool to have this surface detail on the shell itself. No danger of scraping anything off then and it would also allow me to still have the "repaired" spot on the lower left of my cyclotron without exposing a spray texture coat.
So i got started after experimenting a bit:
Needless to say this took a lot of time (in fact two whole days) and i wouldnt recommend it to anyone who wants to stay sane
At least i was able to save the paintjob on my N-filter, the cosmetic plates on the spacer, the injectors, the EDA discs and the cyclotron rings. I needed to see some results while working on it so here we have the upper part of the gearbox in primer:
And now the whole shell:
So then i painted it again, weathered it and finally i was able to put it all back together:
Having all the parts ready made it a lot of fun to assemble
Fortunately i was also able to save the fake weld around the booster tube, it stayed on the EDA box in one piece:
Aaaaand now:
Before painting it i also added some surface texture by smearing superglue onto the shell:
Also found a little airbubble there when i sanded the shell but i just left it, it adds some character
The clippard hex fittings got an update too, now they are more beveled:
So this is where im at right now:
Sure it was a lot of work to do all this but i think it was worth it and im happy with the result
The gearbox label is just temporarily slapped on and its missing some other lables at the moment, im gonna wait for the new ones Funk made and put these on my pack. And of course i also have to wait for the pack to get dusty again, it looks better that way