Cyclicscooby Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Hi Guys.. The CH750 build is going slow, and I wanna throw summut together quicky (that's atleast a month in my model room) to play with.. I decided on a Piper Cub, as I have a growing love for my UMX Carbon Cub.. I found some plans... This is the main one i'm using for the outline.. I'm using the wing profile from this one, as the above profile is more 'brick' shaped, scaled to match the 290mm chord.. . Now.... I came up with the bright idea of using the projector to enlarge the pics.. Brilliant.. Even scaled it, so the fuse, from the rear of the cowl, to rearend is exacty 1 metre, the same size as my sheets of Depron.. I decided to stick together loads of sheets of A4, stick the giant sheet on the wall, and project the above pics, on said paper, and pencil it in... I found the sellotape, paper, got a table out, set up the pics on the projector... Sat down, to start stickin, when Paul said "Why don't you tape the Depron sheet the the wall instead".. Genius..!! So, with a 1mtr sheet lined up, I just penciled round... Took about an hour to do the Fuse, a wing, and tail feathers, including tracing the wing section off the Laptop, and drawing onto the Main... . Saved loads of time.... If it wasn't the bit of living room wall, used for the projector, I would have used a scalpel instead of a pencil, and saved even more time.. Luv Chrisie.. xx Edited By Cyclicscooby on 02/07/2012 00:17:40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Very nice and neat idea - hope you did the "keystone correction" before tracing BEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouncebounce crunch Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 I like this idea but you will be hard pressed finding a projector here in Oz. I really wish i a had seen this idea a few years ago before our machines went missing. but i will be snickin some of your thoughts. and what does BEB mean by Keystone correction the old folgie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly P Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Hi BBC, The Keystone is an effect caused when things are projected from above or below causing one edge to be more stretched than the other, this is corrected on many projectors by some software... Cyclic - great idea, really like that method of scaling. Pity I don't own a projector - suppose I could borrow one from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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