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| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:48 |  | | Views : 760 | | Fuse together. Standard box build technique: Build both sides on the plans, glue the tail post, tape the first former on, than carefully glue in the top and bottom formers. This is going to be a big airplane. It’s 1/16 scale so around 30” wingspan. I was going to downscale it to 1/20, but because I was also dealing with the Laser Etcher, I decided to go with the larger scale. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:43 |  | | Views : 708 | | Fuse parts cut! It took about 1.5 hours to cut the parts. With a more powerful laser, the time would go way down since it takes 6 passes for each part. The more time consuming part is converting the drawing into a file the etcher can use! If anyone is interested in this method, let me know. I’m happy to talk about my pipeline. I was able to cut all the parts for the airplane on one 1/16 x 6 x 36 sheet of balsa, including twice as many wing ribs as outlined in the plan. I was cutting for a good 8 hours, but once I was comfortable that I wasn’t going to catch anything on fire, I was able to do other work while the cutting happed. It’s still a good idea to keep your eye on it though! |
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