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Shrinking fuselage?

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skybound

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Columbus, OH
I've been looking more into the Daisy Mae biplane. Bought the guy's book and its pretty good. My issue with it though is the fuselage width. 27" is about 3" more than I need, and about 1" more than would fit out the door. As far as I'm concerned, 24" is PLENTY. Anyone ever SHRINK a fuselage width? I've seen tons of talk of making them bigger, but not much to make them smaller. What do I need to look out for? I was thinking about the cowl width, but I plan to do the eyebrow things, and if I go down all the way to 24" I should be able to take a lot of inspiration from the pietenpol fuselage.
 
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