Thanks for the heads up Paul I forgot all about the download bits. Bill
On Dec 18, 10:16 pm, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > The build itself its not that difficult more repetitive. > > The body starts with two sides laminated together with a wire between > to help keep the body straight. You need to be careful glueing the > body havles together not to get the tabs stuck together. These tabs > are used to attach the body scales later, there are also cuts that go > beyond the tab so the body scale can slide into them. It sounds a > bit > weired but when you look at the print in the book it makes more > sense. > > There are about sixty internal formers fitted to both sides of > the body. Then the body has 47 external sets of scale from the tip > of > the tail to the head, ranging from a small tube at the tip of the > tail > to a quite large oval at the mid body. To fit the scales to the body > I found the following method the easiest way to fit them. Starting > at > the tip of the tail roll and fit each part but dont glue them on yet > as you may have to remove some of them to get a part to fit over > them. > > Once you have got a most of the tail covered the parts get > bigger and easier to handle so you can use the following method. > Bend the scales to about the right shape first, use the internal > former as a guide to how to shape them scales then attach the top of > the scale to the tabs on the body. There is a cross formed on top of > the body scale by the scales themselves so use use that to align the > scale with the body. The > part of the scale with the tab on it was attached to the bottom of > the > body next followed by the un tabbed part of the scale. The little > tabs > on the internal formers I glued to the inside on the scale and held > them until the glue set this helped bring the part into shape. All > that remains of the body is to fit all the spikes, there are more of > them than you need so you will end up with some spares. > > The legs are a bit fiddly but not too difficult. Construction is > similar to the body in that there is a former inside to which you > attach the scales of the legs. I did find that when I fitted the > claws to the former that it did not look right as the claws sort of > wrapped around the leg. I found that by crimping the former into a Z > shape it made the claws look better, but thats a personal thing. The > legs are then glued to the sides of the body, not a very good method > of attachment but it works so long as you dont go throwing it about. > > The wings are not too difficult once you sort out what bit goes > where. There are 8 parts to each wing with a lot of scoring and > folding to do. Glueing one tab at a time the wing soon begins to > take > shape. You need to trim the edges of the wing to shape as the front > part is cut to shape but the rear needs to be cut to match. A good > idea I thought as you dont have to try and match two cut edges. > > The Head is straight forward really and the instructions in the book > are easy to follow. The hardest bit I found with the head was the > Antlers or Horns. You start out as one tube but you have to score > and > bend so that it looks like one tube segment fits inside the next. If > you look closely at my pics you can just about make out what I mean, > (or is that because I know what I mean so I can see it). Then it just > a case of fitting the big teeth and the frilly bits. > > I hope this gives you all an idea of what it like to build, I'm sure > that with the blog link and my blurrb you should be able to make a > Dragon. > > Bill > > This post edited --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
