jal3net
plotting-2
Since I was a kid, I have always been captivated by the paper shrouded rockets like "The Point". My biggest nemesis, however, was always the Centuri Vulcan. I built lots of them but never got one to behave or even look very good...until I became a BAR and cloned one. It's not the best flyer in the world but it actually works which is more than I can say about any that I built in the 70s.
Recently, I have been in contact with Blades from TRF about his 24mm upscale and he kindly sent me the PDFs for the shrouds. After some conversation, we mentioned other scales and I mentioned that I used to be an engineer and still had a color plotter that handles media up to 5 feet wide and 300 feet long. This also means no splicing of the shrouds!
I tried to print first on a sheet of posterboard but the plotter did not like that. The media was too thick. I visited the local paper distributor and found 130# cardstock that was less expensive, bigger, thinner and stronger than the posterboard. I ordered some sheets and resolved to give it a try.
It took some trial and error but I found that landscape orientation would actually work.
plotting-2
Since I was a kid, I have always been captivated by the paper shrouded rockets like "The Point". My biggest nemesis, however, was always the Centuri Vulcan. I built lots of them but never got one to behave or even look very good...until I became a BAR and cloned one. It's not the best flyer in the world but it actually works which is more than I can say about any that I built in the 70s.
Recently, I have been in contact with Blades from TRF about his 24mm upscale and he kindly sent me the PDFs for the shrouds. After some conversation, we mentioned other scales and I mentioned that I used to be an engineer and still had a color plotter that handles media up to 5 feet wide and 300 feet long. This also means no splicing of the shrouds!
I tried to print first on a sheet of posterboard but the plotter did not like that. The media was too thick. I visited the local paper distributor and found 130# cardstock that was less expensive, bigger, thinner and stronger than the posterboard. I ordered some sheets and resolved to give it a try.
It took some trial and error but I found that landscape orientation would actually work.