Got these printed up by a friend at a sign shop. Took a while to cut bc the transparencies were thicker than normal. xacto wasn't doing the trick well enough for me, so I had to take my time with small scissors.
They all fit the stands well (despite some slight warping I'm choosing to get over now. they've been hit with a coat each of a small and large flake clear coat, and the top coat is now drying.
All that remains now is sucking it up and modifying the A5 piece that attaches to the core lander. I'm thinking I'll probably wait to try that until my second A5 piece has been confirmed to have started it's journey from Japan. I'd hate to mess this up and have to sit and brood on that without an ETA for a replacement to the very vital last piece.
Looking good! Can't wait to see it all set up... but I will, because I totally agree with waiting on the backup piece to arrive before making any permanent modifications.
Yeah it got a lot more tricky once I realized I can't drill holes in the top piece of the core fighter that folds down. Turns out that the bottom studs of the A5 would end up right in the way of the pegs/sockets that hold that part of the core fighter together. Now the least destructive option will be to but the 2 bottom "pegs" of A5 and extend it using a small scrap of PLA glued to the bottom. Hopefully it'll kinda cinch onto the core fighter and help distribute that extra weight from the sun Rings display