Wednesday 25th

Using clear acrylic, I have drilled the hole for the beam to come through the top ring and applied a speckled effect with white spray paint the represent the grill. During the morning I also stuck twelve of each railing post to it's reversed pair with the cutouts sandwiched between to create the gap. The angle on the triangular piece has been corrected and resprayed along with the final coats for the support beam.

Having looked at my bumper pieces, Paul has suggested using the CNC machine to make these shaped from a block of wax instead. Unfortunately, our drawings once again did not work in the Excalibur programme as they do not originate at point 0,0 and lie flat on the plane. Paul suggests correcting this by tracing the existing drawings on the correct plane in Rhino before attempting to CNC this again tomorrow.

After a discussion, our group has decided to change the method of constructing the pier. We will make the shape one millimetre smaller around it's circumference before applying the textured styrene around the top ring and plain styrene around the bottom. This should mean the whole piece will be flush, ideally with the join lines for the top ring of styrene disguised with the beams running down this.