STEP 141 > You want to try and make sure that your beam is as close to 90 degrees as your circle halves.

STEP 142 > Now we want to attach the poster board to the bottom edge of your Foamcore Base.

STEP 143 > Since your poster board rectangle is double the width of the Small Round Wall Panel, we don't have to wait until it is glued in place to give it it's memory.

STEP 144 > You can roll it onto itself like this until it looks the size of a toilet paper tube. MAKE SURE YOU CURVE THE 20.5 cm length NOT THE 15 cm !!!

STEP 145 > When you let go you will see it has already a pretty good memory of the curve that fits your half circles.

STEP 146 > Apply some hot glue ONLY ON ONE SIDE all across the bottom edge and about 1 inch on each of the half circles.

STEP 147 > Carefully place your poster board skin support along the outer edges of your foamcore base. Make sure ti is centered with the corners.

STEP 148 > A good tip to NOT BURN burn your fingers is to take a small scrap of foamcore and use it to put pressure on the poster board as you move it down from one end to the other. You will really smoosh that glue against the poster board and create a nice flush level contact.

STEP 149 > Don't worry if some excess glue poops itsway out the cracks you can use your finger nails when thehot glue has cooled down to scrape it off into little nose snot balls.

STEP 150 > See without much pressure or glue yet, the memory cure pretty much follows where we want to attach it to.

STEP 151 > You will notice that there is a small excess at the end, this is normal. we will trim it later.

STEP 152 > Squeeze a small amount of hot glue on both sides close to the half circle posterboard contact points and stop just before you reach the centre top.

STEP 153 > Now grab your poster board and pull it straight real tight.

STEP 154 > As you keep pulling tight, start lowering it down as it fold over the half circle curves. Keep your hand in this position for 20-30 seconds until the hot glue is pretty much cooled down.

STEP 155 > Now to close the tube. We want a small amount all the way across the bottom and 1 inch up each side of the half circles.

STEP 156 > Carefully pull straight first then lower until you get contact with the bottom edge.

STEP 157 > You can now place the glued side down onto your flat surface and press down from the other side of your Large round Wall Base. This way you wont burn your fingers and it will smoosh the poster board and the foamcore together leaving no air pockets to give you a nice clean contact seam.

STEP 158 > Now if ever you end up with slight imprefections in your top and bottom poster board alignments, don't worry , we can trim that off to give you the flush surface that you need to place it in your diorama.

STEP 159 > There is just ONE IMPORTANT RULE. NEVER CUT OUTWARDS !!! If you cut this way as you see the arrow pointing, you are putting pressure on your poster board AWAY from the surface that you glued it to, meaning it will most likely tear off.

STEP 160 > You want to cut in the direction the arrow is pointing, TOWARDS the half circle so that you are pushing against where you glued and preventing any tears from happening.

Just EXTEND your blade fully and MOVE DOWN as you PUSH FORWARD. When you reach the end of your blade, STOP putting pressure and pull it back to the starting position - front of the blade, and continue. Move down and push forward until your excess is completely trimmed off.


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