Serenity - July 10 2006

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Trying to measure out the holes for the nose. For some reason it looked wrong no matter how much I measured thing. It took several tries to try and line things up but no matter how much I measured things did nt seem right

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Here is a little jig I made up to check the alignment of the parts

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This little thing checks the distance from the center line even though I measured it with a caliper and it seemed fine. However by eye it still did not look right so I had to make these little jigs

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The other side measured

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I finally think I got it right

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A long while later I have my parts to detail the nose

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ans a long more while later things are assembled

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Since I lost the time while at the convention I could have stopped at the above but wanted to do a bit more. This is drawing up lines on the scale photo to get the nose antenna arrays started

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Two two started nose antenna arrays