Since my last post on Saturday I have made a bit more progress. As I mentioned I wasn’t too happy with the way that I had done the ‘hinges’ principally because the gap in them was too large but also because I had an itch to try to make them articulate.

I started on the bottom section because that was where the the gap between the two plates was greatest. I took the plunge and cut off all the lower sections of the hinge leaving just a small overhang behind. Then I cut some 2mm lengths of microbore brass tube and soldered them under the overhangs of the remains of the hinge plates. Then I measured the gaps in between and cut and fitted some more lengths of tube in between these were nominally 10mm but since I didn’t get the 2mm pieces exactly perfect they had to be custom fit in to each gap.

Then I fed a length of 0.4mm wire through all the lengths and tack soldered the longer lengths to the centre section of the shield.