2D Space craft - biscuit problems

[AndrewBeasley]

I've put up a short build notes for the Titan class scout ship from Fat Dragon on my blog (here) and the resulting action using the new Use Me rules (here) but I thought you may like to see:

The plastic biscuits I made to hold the parts together and how they fit:




The final ship:


Though the main part of the ship (the spine) sits well I still have a problem by the nose - top white line by the Ixx figure - where the cuts are fine but the foam seems to put a bend in the plasticard and split apart.

Any one come across this before?  It seems like the ship want to fold no matter what I do.  To be honest I do better without the joins but then the bits move around...

Andrew

[Luckyjoe]

I think it looks very nice and is certainly playable as is. But to address your question:

Are the edges of the foamcore bent down at the join? Sometimes that happens during cutting or when burnishing the edge of the print-out onto the underlying foamcore. If that's the case, you may be able to fix it by carefully elevating the bent-down edge. Another possible problem could be that the slots you made for the biscuits are not in the same plane, if one side has a different angle than the other, that could also cause this problem.

I've used the biscuit method in the past but I kept losing the biscuits. Now I use either an old magnetic dry erase board or a 2x2 foot wooden board painted with magnetic paint, and apply strips of cheap craft store magnetic strips beneath the tile pieces. The tile pieces stay in place pretty well on the magnetic board and there's no biscuits to lose. A more expensive option I tried was to print out the floor tiles onto magnetic photo-paper. Works well but was kind of pricey, even in 15mm scale.

[anevilgiraffe]

no idea about the biscuit problem, but love the layout, consider your blog followed