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=='''Day 11'' '''''New!'''''==
Date: 6/16/15 through 6/26/15<br />
Time spent: ~25-30 hours. Hell if I know
Whooo 10 day hiatus from posting.
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I think I've been getting lazy with the posts. No denying it now.
===Back Half of Arm Cannon===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 192.jpg|thumb|right|Ring cutouts for elevating the back turret]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 193.jpg|thumb|right|Turret elevation rings being assembled]]
So if you look at Furutaka's arm cannon, you'll notice that the back cannon is actually elevated a bit up so... you know, the cannons don't shoot into each other. That said, I decided to just make the elevating platform consist of many half inch thick discs. To allow for attaching the actual turret, I once again used a steel floor flange. To keep that stable on the foamboard (Which isn't the most rigid material ever), I simply threw in a layer of wood.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 193.jpg|Turret elevation rings being assembled
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 194.jpg|Turret elevator
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 195.jpg|Different angle
</gallery>
That done, I decided to work a bit more on the back piece for the arm cannon, the part that the elevator would stick into. This by itself was actually pretty simple since the only thing I really did was add in straps to attach it to my arm. Quite simple, really. I used a tri-glide strap holder in a way it's definitely not meant to to keep it in place. As a note, I did sew the straps together after sliding it into the tri-glide.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 197.jpg|right|Arm cannon's back half
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 209.jpg|Back component of arm cannon with turret elevator
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 210.jpg|Top side
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 211.jpg|Arm band with tri-glide... these aren't meant to stop belts loll;
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 212.jpg|Gluing the straps onto the cannon
</gallery>
===Torpedoes and Holder===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 222.jpg|thumb|right|Torpedoes inserted into torpedo rack]]
This part was pretty fun. My 3D printed torpedo propellors came in so I just slapped them into the PVC tubing and painted those babies up. Ended up looking pretty slick! Aside from that, I also added on the connection point of the torpedo casing to my leg.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 199.jpg|Torpedo propellors!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 200.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 201.jpg|Gluing them together
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 202.jpg|Rest of the turret barrels
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 203.jpg|Torpedoes with gesso being applied
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 204.jpg|Torpedoes getting first layer of paint
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 205.jpg|Taping the torpedo to apply black paint layer
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 206.jpg|Another shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 207.jpg|Applying black paint over masking tape
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 208.jpg|Torpedoes finished!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 216.jpg|Torpedo casing!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 217.jpg|Other side!
</gallery>
===Front Half of Arm Cannon===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 214.jpg|thumb|right|Tentative positioning of arm cannons]]
So this is just going to be mostly galleries since it should be pretty self-explanatory. For this first part, it'll be the preliminary construction of the walls for the front half and getting the PVC grip in-place. Something that I kept high in my priority was to make many components of this removable so I had easy access in case something broke. The last thing I want is the wiring in the grip to fuck up and suddenly I can't get to it because I glued everything together :(
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 218.jpg|Working on building side walls of front half of arm cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 219.jpg|PVC grip in-place
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 220.jpg|Holding up in-progress cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 221.jpg|Upside-down, but should look something lik ethis.
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 223.jpg|Buttons! These will control the turrets
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 224.jpg|Holding the cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 225.jpg|Another shot of the front
</gallery>
Then the next part is constructing the bottom half of the front cannon. This is basically creating a hull-like thing that'll attach to the bottom. This will be removable. I also worked on getting a sideways V-cut on the back of the hull as this is portrayed in the actual character design as well. This was a bit annoying to figure out because of the non-angular portions of the hull and whatnot. In the end I just decided to create a wood skeleton inside the foamboard outline I already had. You know, usually you construct the softer part around the skeleton, not the other way around lol.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 228.jpg|Working on building the bottom half of the hull's frame
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 229.jpg|Measurements!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 230.jpg|Frame coming to life!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 231.jpg|Starting to look like something
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 241.jpg|Penciled lines indicate where cut will go
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 242.jpg|Enforcing the bottom hull's frame
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 243.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 244.jpg|Closer shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 251.jpg|Bottom hull's curves glued in
</gallery>
The third part is Further working on the top half (I'm doing this in the order I worked on the parts as opposed to realigning them) I cut out parts of the walls as the original image portrays a sideways V-like cut on the side. Aside from that, I also stuck the battery in which will be powering the motors.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 247.jpg|Front half of arm cannon with turret on top
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 248.jpg|Front shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 249.jpg|Angled shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 250.jpg|In-progress shot of both front and back halves of arm cannon
</gallery>
Finally, I worked on both halves to add a platform that would allow me to place some velcro in to attach the two halves together. This was relatively straight forward. By the end of this, the bottom hull looked pretty crazy.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 252.jpg|Shot of the platform to put velcro on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 253.jpg|A shot of the platform on the bottom hull where the velcro will go on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 254.jpg|Two platforms will align
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 255.jpg|Like so
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 256.jpg|Two halves velcro'd together
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 257.jpg|Velcro in shot
</gallery>
===Clothes===
So I was originally hoping to not have to work on this, but it ended up with me not being able to get away lol. Basically I was hoping I could buy the right kinds of clothes for the outfit but apparently the top portion of Furutaka's clothes, the kinda sailor uniform, is not really a thing. That said, I ended up being a long sleeved one that mostly looked right and went ahead and modified it.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 234.jpg|Modified long-sleeve sailor suit. Shortened sleeves and needs center to be cut
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 235.jpg|Front cut with cuff things
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 238.jpg|Semi-final product
</gallery>
And here's me wearing these and the bodysuit
<gallery widths="200px" heights="350px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 239.jpg|Wearing most of the clothes :)
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 240.jpg|Bodysuit underneath kek
</gallery>
===Random other Shit===
Battery came in!
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 196.jpg|thumb|Batteries! The acid lead battery is used for powering small vehicles lol;;]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 198.jpg|thumb|Battery charging]]
</gallery>
And painting the backpack thing!
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 213.jpg|thumb|Top shot of the exhaust pipe]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 215.jpg|thumb|Smokestack backpack and shoulder cannon]]
</gallery>
And the torpedo rack on my shin armor!
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 190.jpg|thumb|Shin armor with torpedo rack]]
</div>
Date: 6/16/15 through 6/26/15<br />
Time spent: ~25-30 hours. Hell if I know
Whooo 10 day hiatus from posting.
<span class="mw-customtoggle-furutaka-day12" style="border:1px solid blue; border-radius: 5px;padding:5px">Show/Hide Day 12</span>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-furutaka-day12">
I think I've been getting lazy with the posts. No denying it now.
===Back Half of Arm Cannon===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 192.jpg|thumb|right|Ring cutouts for elevating the back turret]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 193.jpg|thumb|right|Turret elevation rings being assembled]]
So if you look at Furutaka's arm cannon, you'll notice that the back cannon is actually elevated a bit up so... you know, the cannons don't shoot into each other. That said, I decided to just make the elevating platform consist of many half inch thick discs. To allow for attaching the actual turret, I once again used a steel floor flange. To keep that stable on the foamboard (Which isn't the most rigid material ever), I simply threw in a layer of wood.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 193.jpg|Turret elevation rings being assembled
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 194.jpg|Turret elevator
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 195.jpg|Different angle
</gallery>
That done, I decided to work a bit more on the back piece for the arm cannon, the part that the elevator would stick into. This by itself was actually pretty simple since the only thing I really did was add in straps to attach it to my arm. Quite simple, really. I used a tri-glide strap holder in a way it's definitely not meant to to keep it in place. As a note, I did sew the straps together after sliding it into the tri-glide.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 197.jpg|right|Arm cannon's back half
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 209.jpg|Back component of arm cannon with turret elevator
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 210.jpg|Top side
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 211.jpg|Arm band with tri-glide... these aren't meant to stop belts loll;
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 212.jpg|Gluing the straps onto the cannon
</gallery>
===Torpedoes and Holder===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 222.jpg|thumb|right|Torpedoes inserted into torpedo rack]]
This part was pretty fun. My 3D printed torpedo propellors came in so I just slapped them into the PVC tubing and painted those babies up. Ended up looking pretty slick! Aside from that, I also added on the connection point of the torpedo casing to my leg.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 199.jpg|Torpedo propellors!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 200.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 201.jpg|Gluing them together
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 202.jpg|Rest of the turret barrels
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 203.jpg|Torpedoes with gesso being applied
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 204.jpg|Torpedoes getting first layer of paint
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 205.jpg|Taping the torpedo to apply black paint layer
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 206.jpg|Another shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 207.jpg|Applying black paint over masking tape
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 208.jpg|Torpedoes finished!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 216.jpg|Torpedo casing!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 217.jpg|Other side!
</gallery>
===Front Half of Arm Cannon===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 214.jpg|thumb|right|Tentative positioning of arm cannons]]
So this is just going to be mostly galleries since it should be pretty self-explanatory. For this first part, it'll be the preliminary construction of the walls for the front half and getting the PVC grip in-place. Something that I kept high in my priority was to make many components of this removable so I had easy access in case something broke. The last thing I want is the wiring in the grip to fuck up and suddenly I can't get to it because I glued everything together :(
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 218.jpg|Working on building side walls of front half of arm cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 219.jpg|PVC grip in-place
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 220.jpg|Holding up in-progress cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 221.jpg|Upside-down, but should look something lik ethis.
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 223.jpg|Buttons! These will control the turrets
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 224.jpg|Holding the cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 225.jpg|Another shot of the front
</gallery>
Then the next part is constructing the bottom half of the front cannon. This is basically creating a hull-like thing that'll attach to the bottom. This will be removable. I also worked on getting a sideways V-cut on the back of the hull as this is portrayed in the actual character design as well. This was a bit annoying to figure out because of the non-angular portions of the hull and whatnot. In the end I just decided to create a wood skeleton inside the foamboard outline I already had. You know, usually you construct the softer part around the skeleton, not the other way around lol.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 228.jpg|Working on building the bottom half of the hull's frame
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 229.jpg|Measurements!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 230.jpg|Frame coming to life!
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 231.jpg|Starting to look like something
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 241.jpg|Penciled lines indicate where cut will go
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 242.jpg|Enforcing the bottom hull's frame
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 243.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 244.jpg|Closer shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 251.jpg|Bottom hull's curves glued in
</gallery>
The third part is Further working on the top half (I'm doing this in the order I worked on the parts as opposed to realigning them) I cut out parts of the walls as the original image portrays a sideways V-like cut on the side. Aside from that, I also stuck the battery in which will be powering the motors.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 247.jpg|Front half of arm cannon with turret on top
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 248.jpg|Front shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 249.jpg|Angled shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 250.jpg|In-progress shot of both front and back halves of arm cannon
</gallery>
Finally, I worked on both halves to add a platform that would allow me to place some velcro in to attach the two halves together. This was relatively straight forward. By the end of this, the bottom hull looked pretty crazy.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 252.jpg|Shot of the platform to put velcro on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 253.jpg|A shot of the platform on the bottom hull where the velcro will go on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 254.jpg|Two platforms will align
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 255.jpg|Like so
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 256.jpg|Two halves velcro'd together
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 257.jpg|Velcro in shot
</gallery>
===Clothes===
So I was originally hoping to not have to work on this, but it ended up with me not being able to get away lol. Basically I was hoping I could buy the right kinds of clothes for the outfit but apparently the top portion of Furutaka's clothes, the kinda sailor uniform, is not really a thing. That said, I ended up being a long sleeved one that mostly looked right and went ahead and modified it.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 234.jpg|Modified long-sleeve sailor suit. Shortened sleeves and needs center to be cut
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 235.jpg|Front cut with cuff things
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 238.jpg|Semi-final product
</gallery>
And here's me wearing these and the bodysuit
<gallery widths="200px" heights="350px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 239.jpg|Wearing most of the clothes :)
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 240.jpg|Bodysuit underneath kek
</gallery>
===Random other Shit===
Battery came in!
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 196.jpg|thumb|Batteries! The acid lead battery is used for powering small vehicles lol;;]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 198.jpg|thumb|Battery charging]]
</gallery>
And painting the backpack thing!
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 213.jpg|thumb|Top shot of the exhaust pipe]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 215.jpg|thumb|Smokestack backpack and shoulder cannon]]
</gallery>
And the torpedo rack on my shin armor!
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 190.jpg|thumb|Shin armor with torpedo rack]]
</div>