I hope you have some idea of the GREAT insights you just gave me. Those methods are sooooo much easier than just trying to roll tiny tubes for the pipes.
And for that blasted manifold I tried to make a 3d rendition out of the the two parts by manipulating the paper to have little air spaces inside.... if only I had seen this post before I built mine.... :) Chris On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > One thing I forgot to say was about the great fit of the parts so far. The > nose piece is an exception and I can see the incredible difficulty. It's not > a forgiving spot to fit a piece to and every build will be slightly (but > enough) different. > > Thanks! > Is the manifold the flat piece, the pipes or both? > On the flat piece, I laminated the thin pieces together and let them dry > completely. > Then I hardened the whole piece using CA glue (cyano-acrylate). > After that dried completely, I carefully sanded to gently round the edges. > Then pained with a brown and black craft paint. > The pipes I sort of cheated, but I DID use the actual paper pieces. > I wrapped/glued the pieces around toothpicks, the cut them and glued using > CA glue. > When dry, I nicked off any eye-sores and painted like the outlet. > I will take better pictures of that and all of the plane. > I figured that was the point of the marathon! That way you can show the > completed models to potential buyers. > I'll be tackling the tail, rudder and stabilizer next. > Joe G > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Gutzmer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 2:52 pm > Subject: [Papermodels II 37668] Re: Build Progress - Pfalz D_IIIa-Hitschler > > > You did a SUPERB job on that engine. How did you get that manifold to > turn out so nice? My first three tries ended up a gluey mass of crud. > My final one was passable but nowhere near as good as yours. A clear > closeup of that would be appreciated when you get the other camera > back :) > Chris > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Have made more progress on the Pfalz D.III >> I apologize for the picture quality - the good camera is away traveling >> this >> week. >> >> Assembled the simple cockpit. It cries out for more detailing or layering >> to >> simulate detail, but as per Chris' direction, I refrained and built as >> designed. >> I've never built a model with formers to be skinned like this. It works >> out >> very well. For the formers that would be butt glued to each other, I cut >> them out carefully, then held them together and gently sanded the edges so >> they matched. I attached just a little point of of the top of the former >> to >> the inside edge of the skin and let the glue set. Then I wrapped one end >> at >> a time. >> Inserting the engine support into the nose went easy. I stuffed the inner >> end with some tissue to spread the sides out so they would glue to the >> outer >> edges. >> I test fitted the engine into the pan - looks nice but hides a lot of nice >> detail. >> The very end of the nose does not fit as well as the other parts or as >> good >> as I'd like. I will alter the piece until it fits to my liking. Figure a >> couple of tries, at least. >> JoeG >> ________________________________ >> Paying hundreds for more mobile than you need? Take a Peek at the answer. >> > >> > > ________________________________ > Paying hundreds for more mobile than you need? Take a Peek at the answer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
