SERENITY - Nov 22 2005
More and more carving of the recess area was needed to get my new frame in
More trimming of frame to get rid of excess
Slowly it fits in. I tack a few spots and triple check the alignment. So far everything looks OK
A few more glue spots and I leave it to check tomorrow to make sure thing still look OK before I glue it all in
Back to the rear wing thing
References show the sides are curved
So I start chopping and filing
And soon it id curved at the edges
Now to add the raised strip at the front
And open up the 3 holes
So I am wondering how much this model has cost me so far. Well material wise there is not much in there. The styrene sheets I already had in stock so I would estimate the value as around $20. The small putty tin and extra hardener I got was maybe another $20. I found my bigger tin I bought a long time ago.
For the moulds I have so far bought around $80 for 2 containers. I bought resin and different RTV rubber which was over $200.
Tools I already had so I don’t really have to add those costs. So the material cost so far is around $320
Now if we add labour. I would estimate that I have so far spend over 175 hours on the model. If I was working for a piddly $5 and hour that is still $875
Change that to $20 hour and it balloons to $3500. Imagine if I was a consultant charging a low rate of $70/hr and it would be $12 250.
It is mind boggling to say the least.