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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
OK back to my project . I now have ‘Chopper II’ which works pretty well even at my scale. I’ve laid out a side of the fuselage and come back to one of my difficulties. Holding it all in place whilst I apply cement. So far tried a very thin strip of tape. Tried a thin track of pritt stick. Tape...- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
1978. Almost too early for Arpanet, too. It looks like an excellent and exacting piece of work. Belated congratulations! :)- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
I've decided I need one. I think it will speed up this project – at least make it more doable.- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
Maybe this is what I need? Dual blade knife https://micromark.com/products/parallel-cutter?variant=43874118205611 EDIT Apologies if this has all been asked better elsewhere. And now I'm seeing tools for styrene. Like one called The Chopper II, a rig that allows lengths to be cut to the same size.- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
Ok. Here's my next question. When I made my first prototype with the 1mm square rod, I attempted to cut all the vertical struts to the same length (they weren't) and butt-joint them. With the next version, using stretch sprue, I decided to lay the vertical under the firmly stretched top and...- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
Congratulations! Is it available to view online?- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
Good suggestions, but it’s the fuselage hanging underneath the balloon .- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
I found the square rod at 0.5mm and 0.3mm at your supplier. I'm not sure why I stopped using the rod I had after my prototype. Perhaps as what I could find was just too thick. But the 0.5mm should match perfectly. Also as you suggest the fact that this material will actually lie straight will...- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
You're right. I do have some rod. It's .020". I could not get square at the time, perhaps EMA will have it. My photo is misleading. As it's the one I started trying mount the ready-made sides vertically on. As you say – I used cellophane and then later sheet glass over my plan to glue together...- MrDatsun
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Thank you. Each one different. Means learning inventing new techniques each project.- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
Oh. Sound interesting. CA? And yes it does fall apart – or the cement actually melts holes in the struts. EDIT. Ah 'Superglue' ?- MrDatsun
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Hi. New to this. Been making scale models for personal pleasure and art recently. Projects have included a back street in Seville, a figure in a 1970s hotel room, a man walking along a mountain pass in Turkmenisthan, a fort in British Somaliland. Use to enjoy airifix kits and helping my father...- MrDatsun
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Making a miniature wood-frame aircraft fuselage 100mm long. Suggestions please???
Hi. My first time posting here. Please bear with me. Hope this is the right forum to ask/ I'm trying to make a scale dirigible from the early 20th C. I have made the balloon, but am having immense trouble with the fuselage due to the tiny scale. I dont know the precise scale but imagine the...- MrDatsun
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