| how to make scale hardware
i thought i would post some tecniques i use to fabricate all that alum. hardware you see. today i'm working onthe wing struts. first i scanned the full size strut into my computer. i have adobe but prefer coral draw. once thats scanned in i scan my reference drawing in so i can have it next to the scan of the struts. if your plans our accurate from a kit or scratch the parts should fit like a glove because all your doing is drawing a part over the scanned image.first i take my bezier tool and just connect the dots (nodes) around the strut bottom for the first fitting. after its basically outlined i convert all the nodes to curves this way i can take all the handels on the nodes and manipulate them until i have the right curves. once i have them all drawn i delete the scans and make multiple images on a sheet of paper that way i have plenty of templates in case somthing goes wrong. |