Techpriest Enginseer field manual

Page 6 - Keeping it all together

Drawing ever so close to the end. With the use of liberal amounts of glue I attached the cloth to the covers. I pressed them together temporarily until the glue dried. Until it was drying I sprayed a layer of clear finish on the Adeptus Mechanicus logo, thus both made the black really black and protected the whole detail (the silver layer is extremely thin and gentle)

I am aware that it shows, alas after the first gluing I managed to ruin the cloth with improper use of a tool. That’s why the picture is from the first attempt, even though I put a new piece afterwards. Then I got on to riveting. Pop rivets are easy to work with, while the standard ones that have to be shaped with special tools are a bit trickier. I myself as yet not that experienced Techpriest had some trouble with them and had to consult with the more experienced Magus (my father that is). After his wise guidance, I learned how to work properly with the tools and as you can see it all went well.

After riveting everything I attached the main paper body to the cover with the aid if the bolts and the aluminum plates. On the picture below only one is seen but I assure you the final mounting uses all three of them.

There was one last step for finishing with the functional part of the build. The lock. Again the initial idea was changed. Instead a cloth strip attached to the back cover, passing above the lock and locking itself on the front cover I choose to do it this way – a locking element on the front cover. While this simplifies the look a bit it was necessary because of security issues. In what sense you might ask? Well, you see, the lock is for a drawer and using the initial method would allow anyone to “exploit” it. It would be enough to pull up or push down strongly enough the locking detail and to simply slip it off from the lock. The new firmly fixed locking detail doesn’t allow this to be done.