Make: Volume 74

I turned and beveled a piece of styrene rod on

the lathe to make the cylindrical nose. I milled a

flat-bottom hole in the body with a ⁄" end mill

and CA’ed the nose in place (Figure

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)

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4. FINISH AND PAINT

Once the form is well defined, seal it with fast-

hardening glazing putty. Using a tiny spatula cut

from a plastic lid, trowel on a skim layer of putty.

Immediately scrape it off, leaving putty in just the

pores of the foam texture.

Paint the body with white primer (Figure

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) to

see the shape better and identify areas to re-putty

and sand (Figure

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). It will take a few iterations

of layers of primer and putty to get a smooth,

finished surf