Night Before Thirteenth Lesson

Throughout the last few days at home, I have finished cutting my layers and have also glued them on. For that I really have to give credit to my dad because he supplied iron filers, stanley knife, sandpaper and even a hot glue gun. This enabled me to cut out my layers and glue them on without stressing that I have to glue it on really quickly at the start of the vacuum forming lesson. A difficulty I encountered while cutting out my layers was that the shape of garfield's face on my mold was different to the actual picture so I had difficulty when I was glueing the eyes on. But in the end I solved the problem by drawing garfield's face onto the mold and then using baking paper to trace out the eyes and finally I traced around the eyes, onto cardboard. Another thing that I had to watch out was that the layers cannot be bigger than the layer and timber beneath it, this is because when the thermoplastic sets, you cannot pull your clock out entirely because the layer jutting out will be stuck. The last problem was glueing the eyes. The eyes were too small to use a dab of glue because the eyes are smaller than the dab so after it dries, there will just be glue jutting out from under the eyes. What I did was I quickly put someone glue on a piece of cardboard and then using a toothpick, I took a tiny aount of glue and stuck the eyes on. The process was very hard and time-consuming but it was better than having glue sticking out from the bottom.

I hope my clock tomorrow won't encouter the 'layer stuck' problem.

P.S. I'm sorry about the picture of garfield, I don't know how to turn it horizontally.