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Templates tool

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Workhorse

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Mar 6, 2010
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Location
Southern Spain
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!.

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Ok, this might have been worked but my patience for this stuff is short. Then I remembered a tool like a hair comb.

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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
 
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