Splash's Card Focke-Achgelis Fa223. ****DNF****

[iggie]

Fascinating work so far; it looks really good

[SJPONeill]

It will also dry hard enough to sand (good for strengthening edges) and won'tdistort the paper the same way that normal PVA does...it's all I use now except for a little CA for difficult small parts...

[JohnRatzenberger]

Today I bought some Gorilla PVA wood glue

I use a wood glue also, Elmer's Household, or something like that --it does not shrink as does the usual school white glues. I'm assuming the Gorilla PVA is similar.

Simon got in first ... with better info.

[splash]

Last night I stuck some parts down onto card using the Gorilla glue and I'm impressed, as Simon and John have said, the paper stuck to the card with no distortion like you get with cheap school type PVA and the card feels much stiffer now the glue has set.

I can now see this being my glue of choice for most projects.

[splash]

Bad news I tried to skin the rear cabin but the outer skin is about 1/4 inch too short in circumference, this could be down to either one or two problems, first I must check I printed the skin at 100% not the 96% default on my printer or I have messed up the cage dimensions and will need to start again.

At this stage it's no big problem because I can just print all the parts off again.

[iggie]

I hope it's the print scale that out

[splash]

I hope it's the print scale that out

Unfortunately I don't think it is, I have printed off a sheet of light paper just to give it a trial, I should know in about one hours time.

[SJPONeill]

I'd be leaning towards some sort of scaling error. Marek's models have a pretty good rep although I haven't been able to find any other builds of the Rescue so far... if it's not something as simple as a print to fit error you might want to ask over at papermodelers.com to see if anyone has had the same issue...

Worst case you may be able to get away with adding and extra piece of skin to fill the gap - I assume it is underneath..?

[splash]

A test print on paper and thin card shows that it must be my error as the skin fits the two formers with no gap.



So it's back to plan "A" and build the cockpit cage in card.

[SJPONeill]

But if your cage fits within the bounds of the formers, it shouldn't affect the the fit of the skin..? I think it's too neat to just discard...dis-card...get it?

Something to consider since you have printed an extra skin piece would be to cut out the window frames and laminate them onto the the actaul skin to give a raised 3D effect around the windows; possibly do the opposite around what looks like a filler cap on the upper corner of the fuselage..?

[splash]

Good idea about using the Windows, I cut out the glazed ones I had made and stuck them on the new skins.

After sanding down the two formers and using thinner skin I think it might have sorted out my problem, plus I have joined two skins together to see if the extra length will make it easier.

[splash]

Success

[JamesPerrin]

Impressive wood work skills let alone your paper fu!

[JohnRatzenberger]

Way to work through it !!

[SJPONeill]

That looks good...nice and solid too...