Well, some things always go wrong with my projects. XD This is especially true when I'm trying to hit a deadline... It's OK, though. It sucks that the leg panels broke but the damage to the left one is so minor that I don't feel a need to address it, beyond just gluing the part down to prevent it being damaged further... As for the right leg, I've already spot-primed the damaged area - the repair seam still needs more work, unfortunately, but it'll be good as new when I'm done with it.
The combination of a last-minute push to hit a deadline (and the corresponding lack of sleep) and a failure to place tends to be pretty discouraging for me - makes me question my own work. But I don't think the last-minute rush hurt this project too badly - it's great that all this work on the project is now
done and very little of it needs to be
undone and fixed... It really just needs a little work and a little weathering and I think it'll turn out great.
What's really a shame, though, is that gap that appeared on the right leg. I didn't glue that part down because I'd planned to have the part be removable so I could service the wiring that way... But as a result it became difficult to make the part stay put where it should be, so the right leg, at the show, had that 1mm gap between the blue and white parts. I didn't even notice that gap until after judging - if not for that gap I think my entry would have at least merited third place over the runabout. But the second place winner was this lovely Maschinen Krieger diorama... and first place was a Fine Molds Millennium Falcon - which had a few seam gaps in it but was otherwise really cool. Personally I think the second place winner should have gone first but I think both were damn good models - that makes me feel less bad about losing, too.
