Modern Minuteman

[RabidAlien]

Finally complete!  This one took a while to cut because of all of the turns and nooks and crannies, plus having to watch out for some tenuous connections to various islands.  I used 1/8 BB ply, double-stacked and taped.  Only had two little pieces that had to be re-glued, the barrel shroud and the details of the magazine below his right hand.  In retrospect, there was a spot at the end of the barrel shroud that could've been bridged to give it an anchor on both ends.  Hindsight being 20/20 and all that.    Otherwise, I'm VERY happy with how this turned out!  Per my discussion with Joonho Kim (http://tacticaldrawings.com/), I'm not posting a complete picture to discourage anyone from running across the photo and making their own template to cut and sell (images are different sizes and slightly different angles to discourage the same).  So this one is going to hang on the wall in my house....the second one, I'm heading to the Post Office and sending to Mr. Kim this morning in thanks for letting me use his art. 

I discovered a problem in the text when I drilled the first pilot hole for my pin-ended blades....again, in hindsight, I should've gone back and reprinted the text using a larger font, that would've helped the holes blend better.  Lesson learned:  make sure your pattern has a wide enough spot for pilot holes, if you can't afford a fancy-schmancy new scroll saw. 

Frame was made out of a piece of 1x2 Poplar, stained Walnut.  Backing is something cheap and thin from Lowes, also Walnut.  Minuteman was finished with BLO.

 

[DWSUDEKUM]

Excellently done.  Thanks for sharing this with us.

 

DW

[lawson56]

Oh This is Awesome!!!!! I Love it!!.I would be Very Proud of this  also.

[newfie]

Great work thanks for sharing 

[GPscroller]

Very nicely done, that turned out great.

Jeff

[RabidAlien]

Thanks, y'all!