I had built a 1/200 Bartel in 2011 http://ift.tt/2ahCCJ3 and wanted to do something different this time. The scale of this bi-plane is 1/33 originally, but I had upscaled it to fit on an A3 page and the scale became about 1/25, measuring some 10 inches/25 cm long. I started building this freeby at the end of last year and sort of finished the fuselage of formers when I then doubted why the skin didn't fit the fuselage. After checking and re-checking, I found that the scale bar on each page of the parts template was different. What a shock and what a disaster, meaning that I had to start all over again. I have also browsed through this forum and could only found another thread by ccoyle posted in 2008 on this model but no mention was made on this issue. Neither did I notice this discrepancy back in 2011 when I built the mini model.
The templates were laser-printed after ensuring the scale of each page was identical. How to? Well, just take any page, in my case, the first page of template and copy the scale bar onto the other pages for comparison. Suitably rescale the whole page according to the scale bar you have chosen as the standard and you'll be fine. Took me a lot of trials mixing the right paint for edge coloring, painting the landing gear struts and a strip to cover the ugly gap joining the upper wing. Just a word about the templates for the wings, upper and lower. They are the same length if taken right from the template page since the width of the fuselage is also included the upper wing. So make sure they are trimmed appropriately and the anchor points on the under surface of the upper wing for the wing-supporting struts are good reference to do the trimming.
After finishing the plane some three to four months later, I sprayed it with Gunze Mr Color Gloss Clear to make it more shiny. I had taken photos on this model a few times with my cell phone but could not get a satisfactory photo showing the shorter upper wing of this biplane. The wide angle lens on all cell phone has a tendency to fool the viewer into believing that the length of the upper and lower wings is the same. But they aren't. Finally, using a digital camera and obtaining the right angle of view, and getting some free time recently, I managed to get the pic that I have wanted, and here we are.
Papermate
The templates were laser-printed after ensuring the scale of each page was identical. How to? Well, just take any page, in my case, the first page of template and copy the scale bar onto the other pages for comparison. Suitably rescale the whole page according to the scale bar you have chosen as the standard and you'll be fine. Took me a lot of trials mixing the right paint for edge coloring, painting the landing gear struts and a strip to cover the ugly gap joining the upper wing. Just a word about the templates for the wings, upper and lower. They are the same length if taken right from the template page since the width of the fuselage is also included the upper wing. So make sure they are trimmed appropriately and the anchor points on the under surface of the upper wing for the wing-supporting struts are good reference to do the trimming.
After finishing the plane some three to four months later, I sprayed it with Gunze Mr Color Gloss Clear to make it more shiny. I had taken photos on this model a few times with my cell phone but could not get a satisfactory photo showing the shorter upper wing of this biplane. The wide angle lens on all cell phone has a tendency to fool the viewer into believing that the length of the upper and lower wings is the same. But they aren't. Finally, using a digital camera and obtaining the right angle of view, and getting some free time recently, I managed to get the pic that I have wanted, and here we are.
Papermate
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