D-1: 1 day before final submission.
A broken model makes for a broken man.

The bitter taste of defeat at 6am in the morning. A whole night's work wasted. An atrocity I dare not acknowledge as my own. What bastard model did I bring forth into this world? I had high hopes for you. I spent the day trying out various ways to wrap styrene round my model. It looked promising but I couldn't get it to work out.

Eventually late in the evening I switched to another design. Seemed to work. Sure, I din't really like it like the previous, but whatever works. I tried to make some nicer templates to wrap around. Then when making it, I found out the hot styrene had warped and deformed the main part of my model (a plastic egg made out of polypropylene). The egg was partly ruined. Looking back I suppose I can be thankful the entire thing didn't just break apart.

That was the last straw though. I really couldn't see the point in carrying on further in this course, but I have no more time. I have to carry on with what I have. So I just did. Spent the whole night trying to fix the styrene base, puttying, and sanding and and spraying it. Then at 6am I insert the main egg part and the styrene (being too small) cracks open. Voila. There you go.

Emergency repair efforts like filling it with putty have been done and I'm going to work out how to spray the damn thing later. But that's it for me. I've had it with this horrible thing. I get the feeling I'm carrying on down a road filled with disaster and it's only going to get worse as I go on. There' no point in continuing in this course of action so I'm going to take the first exit. My model is pretty much held together by spit and prayers so I expect it will be one of the worst ones on Wed. Only my other work can save me now.

Maybe there's a way to save it. I don't want to give up. I hate to do so. But I really don't feel like pushing my way down this path. Sigh.