NOW TO COVER THE CREATION !! Another difficult part

Having to make careful patterns to cover large sections of the dome.  Whatever groups of shapes occur on the dome, happens 5 times !! The door interrupts the 5th one, but at least, when I finish a pattern and cut 4 identical plastic cardboard sections..and score them to fold at the struts, they seem to work very well,, including the overlap for shedding the rain.

Here are a few photos showing the progression of cutting patterns for the covering

and attaching the to the dome..

So far on December 6

The intense rains have started and have prevented any more work for now..

When things dry out, I'll finish up the outer covering..

Finally stopped raining and ground dry enough to stand on..





About 2 more full days cutting patterns ( scoring the sheets where they fold over struts)
 and attaching the plastic panels

January 10 !!  the only panels not covered is the pentagon at the top !!!

January 15.

gonna be tough to get up on the top
to attach this plastic to this last pentagon section at the top..
All other panels were attached with screws into the hubs.
 

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Here's a few photos of the dome at this point...

I'm standing in the center of the interior.. good ceiling height

 & floor space

 

Notice the final top panel

Once the exterior was completely covered, I started working on the shelving for the interior...
very fortunately I was able to use the left-over cinder blocks for supporting the shelves...

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