Workhorse
Well-Known Member
Hi there.
I finally managed to get a 1/4 scale model of the fuselage shape I want. And now the task is transfering the cutaway templates to paper and then the real ones. Easy. NOT!.
I figured two options. The first one was to have some epoxy impregnated cotton cord over a tin foil strip over every section.The second one was to make a papier mache mold (and experiment with this), saw it off and get the templates. As you can see in caption 1 it was a fail. Two layers had been dried in about three hours but I doubled the paper layers and it took three days to say, enough!.
Ok, this might have been worked but my patience for this stuff is short. Then I remembered a tool like a hair comb.
It's made with wooden skewers and blue foam. It is not as I figured like a press-and-go tool but an acupuncture method. First I insert one far away to sabilize the whole set. A second one which is the first one touching the model. When the conical point prevents holding the stick in the foam, I reverse them and carefully insert to get the proper shape. After that, you only need to transfer it to the paper.
Hope you find it useful,
Jorge
I finally managed to get a 1/4 scale model of the fuselage shape I want. And now the task is transfering the cutaway templates to paper and then the real ones. Easy. NOT!.
I figured two options. The first one was to have some epoxy impregnated cotton cord over a tin foil strip over every section.The second one was to make a papier mache mold (and experiment with this), saw it off and get the templates. As you can see in caption 1 it was a fail. Two layers had been dried in about three hours but I doubled the paper layers and it took three days to say, enough!.
Ok, this might have been worked but my patience for this stuff is short. Then I remembered a tool like a hair comb.
It's made with wooden skewers and blue foam. It is not as I figured like a press-and-go tool but an acupuncture method. First I insert one far away to sabilize the whole set. A second one which is the first one touching the model. When the conical point prevents holding the stick in the foam, I reverse them and carefully insert to get the proper shape. After that, you only need to transfer it to the paper.
Hope you find it useful,
Jorge
