We all know that the LindyFletcher is inaccurate. This is my attempt to fix the MK 37.



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Feel free to critique, as suggestions are the only way I'll grow.

Hi Ryan!
The director shape looks good, clean and sharp from what I can see - if you prime it, you also can spot/detect some inaccuracy, so that you can repair it.
The antennae support, you should make the braces thinner (width)...
check these images








Also see the pattern of the "net"
Hope this help
Good job and keep us posted
Rui

Thanks for the photos!

I'm not sure if I can cut styrene that thin, then mold it to the proper shape.

I hear ya, mate...have you ever though of making your own PE? The etching process is not hard, similar to developing your own photo film and prints, but the crucial part is the master drawing...any good with CAD?
Micro-Mark sells the kits and supplies, as well, at decent prices....or you could try to find brass stock this size, (which Micro-Mark has too, but I'm not sure if they make it in the specific size that you need, but there's a lot of sizes available) which would be half the battle won, and just have to cut and bend to scale...

Thats not a bad idea. . . How much of an investment is it? I imagine it's cheaper to just buy the PE parts from Tom's. I know buying defeats the purpose of doing it yourself, but I'm a poor college student.

You're definitely going to get off much cheaper with Toms for sure, Ryan...see here...

Looking good! as for cutting styrene strips, in this case, if you don't go PE (but that's prolly best) you could get pr-made strips, they are available in lots of widths and won't curl or twist like cutting your own.

Mark, homemade PE is .. phew.. it took me one year to get some good results, and still I manage to fail the process from time to time. i have been looking at Micro-mark solution adn i am rather doubtfull on some point:
See they sell some gloves and plastic trays which is really very stupid as those cost nothing and increase the mailing charges.Then the thing that appears me a bit bizzare is that they give some "Photo-Resist Laminating machine " whose aim is to put some photoresist film on some metal, which is a very good and economic way to create the sheet you need, but considering the amount of bucks you have to spend to buy a real one and the fkimsy looking thing they sell, i just wonder about the quality of the final photoresist covered brass the thing end up producing.
So really, I thing that either way, it would cost dearly in metal before getting anything done properly.
Here is after one year worth of experiment the best i can do, and believe me it's quiteb good, but some metal went to the dustbin and my wallet got thinner before managing to get stuff like that

But hey Ryan, it doesn't look like you've got any choice! Only PE will get you what you want!