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Preparing for the AGO C.I scratch build

July 9 2012 at 4:20 PM		   (Login Bolman)
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It has begun.

I have collected sheet styrene and brass wire to expand my stock to avoid running out in the middle of a building frenzy. I have also replaced several key colors of paint jars for back up in case during one building session, I open a dried up jar. (Hate having an entire session of building shut down due to the lack of one color.)

I have printed my drawings which will be used during the build and, as shown in the photo below, checked the drawing for correct scale. The datafile indicates the overall upper wingspan is 15.10M. Converting that measurement to inches, we get 594.488". Reducing that to 1/72 scale we get 8.256".
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It appears I have a good printing of the drawing by just checking the overall wingspan. In the past I would also check the overall length and several other noteable measurements at various locations to check for distortion due to poor printing quality. My current machine has been doing quite well in accuracy lately so I'm confident with just this one check for what I am doing.

For fun, I have already cut out the rudder blanks and have begun the shaping of the rudders. I will get some pics posted of them with the next post of the actual making of parts.

You'll note in the above picture, there are section drawings of the fuselage. Before going any further with part manufacturing, I intend to make guages from these drawings to be used in aiding the shaping of the fuslage nacelle. These will simply slip over the end of the nacelle and slide up into they're correct position if the shape of the fuselage is correct. I've used this method in the past with ship modeling.

With any luck on time available, I hope to have a completed model before the end of the year. If I am really lucky and can focus on the build, I'd like to target Halloween as my completion date.

Thanks for looking!

John
Elkhart, Indiana

 
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