Dome coming along, holoprojectors and more

So the holoprojectors showed up yesterday, which was cool. As you can see below, each one comes in three parts, including the front and back containers. Here they are before smoothing and painting:

Gave everything a nice paint job and so it should be nce and dry by Thursday night when I hit hte maker space. Also, since my lenses came in today, I went ahead and put them in (they fit very snugly; don't need glue or anything). In the meantime, I went ahead and glued down the dome and the blue bits going all the way around. Here's what it looks lie now, with me holding the holoprojectors in (I haven't glued them in yet as I wanted to give the paint a little more time. Learned that lesson the hard way).

As you can see, it's getting very close. Going to see about the top spokes tomorrow night, and if not, will just say to hell with them and leave them as-is. Picked up nuts and wingnuts for attaching the dome and ring to the rockler bearing as well. Then in go the blue "pie slices" up top, the holoprojectors will get glued in, and then it will be a case of finishing up Teeces. And that will be the dome.

Actually, the Teeces stuff is coming along well. I spent last night de-flanging the flanged LEDs that came in the mail, and I've got them in little baggies in by project box, ready for soldering tomorrow night. Now if only the LED controllers and 5-pin jumper cables would show the heck up...oh, well. I've got a few nights of soldering before I need to worry too much about that.