Louvers:
I hate doing louvers just about more than any other part of scratchbuilding even more than rivets.
The problem is if not spaced properly or straight or the degree of opening is not homogeneous they look like crap.
So how to make the Void Generator exhaust louvers?
I hit upon the idea yesterday, checking out the moulded Mars resin castings..........
http://i.imgur.com/Oq3wdwv.jpg
...........I found similar strips in my stock of Evergreen styrene; nothing new there, but also I got some 1,0 X 1,0 MM strips for the slat spacing.
I glued the square stock to the strip stock leaving a half MM margin from the edge.
http://i.imgur.com/ApOEjmp.jpg
I marked the face side of the slat with pencil for even straight spacing.
http://i.imgur.com/g7ZC6Cb.jpg
Once I got the procedure down pat with the first louver as an experiment; the subsequent three remaining are going quite quickly.
more to follow..........