Finally Finished!

I have now completed my model of the Velocity Mobile Phone designed by David Turpin.
After taking apart my model mocked up. I resprayed the screen section black with a little bit less matting agents so that it matched the shine of the actual acrylic screen. I then applied black marker to the edges of my acrylic screen. I tacked the screen in place with 4 tiny dots of super glue so that It could be removed with a scapal knife if needed for any reason. I then decided to apply black permanent marker to the loops either side of the keyboard. This worked very well with the exception of one minor smudge, which I removed with small amounts of t cut. I then check my drawings for where the screen should be placed and measured it out. I then tacked it down with some super glue, which worked very well.
I am very pleased with how the model looks with some minor exceptions, such as the paint job. I wish I had produced another colour for the keyboard section. I dont think the black of the screen section and the colour of the keyboard section work too well with each other.

There were some setbacks at the start of the this project with size issues etc. But I think I have built this model very successfully if not a little too slow.
There are some things that I can do to make this model look better, such as having a variety of photos including models in hands to show size and detail.

I think this model would have been a much quicker build If I had planned less and sorted out the size issues before the project even began. I need to stop over planning and drawing and just produce sketch models and small sketches. This seems to work better than using rhino and trying to visualise things rather than actually making and thiking about making.

Anyway!

Overall If I had spent less time planning and more time making this model would have been done much much quicker! I am happy with the final outcome and I have spoken to my designer David Turpin and he seems to be very happy with the outcome. I will talk with him further to see whether he wants the model or is interested in further work together with hopefully oppurtunities of freelance work.