Project Fat

On the next day I took the MDF sheet and started drilling holes in the material and putting screws in the small triangular pieces. However the quality of the “wood” material was poor and the pieces kept cracking. I made a few more pieces (already at least 40 all together) and started using both glue and screws to attach everything together to the pedestal. Nothing seemed to be solving my issue with the cracks though, so I eventually gave up and got back to the drawing board again.

I Knew it wasn’t a good Idea to attach the wrap directly to the corners of the pedestal but I didn’t have much choice at this point. I just took some screws and started drilling.

Surprisingly enough the pedestal didn’t crack from the screws I put into it and the mdf sheet could actually hold on to the “wood” but the shape was no longer perfectly round.

From then on I just cut the mdf sheet to size and called it a day.

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As the Fuselage concept was turned down I came up with a different way of attaching the mdf sheet around the pedestal, using the supports shown in the previous post.

However we didn’t have enough material to build all of these supports so I had to think of another way to do this.

With the wrapped and tied mdf sheet around the pedestal, I noticed that the shape was pretty much perfectly suiting our needs already, it just needed to be attached to the pedestal.

I took a sheet of paper and measured each of the four corners between the pedestal and the MDF wrap, only to notice they were the same triangular shape, proving the shape of the wrap was already circular.

To attatch the MDF to the pedestal I only needed to make enough triangles and attach them to the pedestal thus creating mounting points for the MDF Sheet.

I needed to make 18 pieces of the same kind and attatch 3 of them to each corner on each side (photo 1). I made them and attatched them with screws on the outside. A few of them cracked while drilling holes inside the “wood” so at the end I ended up making about 30 of those pieces.

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As the fuselage idea was turned down, I had to think of another way to attatch the mdf sheet around the pedestal.

Using supports like these shown in the 3d model above, would help us create the round shape of the installation we were going for.

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There was the idea of building a fuselage on the inside of the main body and wrapping the mdf sheet around it.

However this concept for the build was declined as it would be more complicated.

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