Mycrophobia - the fear of small things
Polyphobia - the fear of many things
Polymycrophobia - the fear of many small things
My polymycrophobia has been in remission for some time now. Just as well as I deal with my ongoing addiction to gorilla glue and my unhealthy relationship with Sketchup. However, following the wonderful 540 build thread by @PsyBorg, especially Post #1 where he shows the plans and the many, many, parts to build this fabulous plane, I had to go have a lie down. No amount of therapy or pharmaceutical intervention was going to allow me to tackle the plane as is.
The FT Edge has been beautifully engineered by Andres and per the plans I am sure she will be a robust craft. But I decided to see if I could adapt the plans to better fit my style of building which typically excludes any part smaller than my head. The area I wanted to tackle was the fuselage.
After identifying the parts in the plans that form the fuselage shape, I took screen captures and imported the image into Sketchup (my precious). The images were all scaled identically and to the ruler on the plans. I then tried to draw out the fuse "surface" in a flattened form, doing my best to ensure that the sections lined up correctly.
About 75% of the way through I realized that working in 2D was not going to cut it so using some of the angles measured from the formers on the plans, I folded the parts to generate a 3D model. For the most part, these pieces folded together well and only minor changes were needed to get everything to line up properly.
Of course the irony is that I now needed to unfold the parts again to make draft plans. As you might have guessed, I am going to use the score->gorilla glue->frame approach to this build.
Okay, so the part count is not minimal, but the fuse/canopy is just three parts and you need 5 frame parts to hold the lot together while the glue dries. I can keep the frames and re-use them the next time I need to build / re-build.
Got the parts printed and cut tonight and I dry fit them into frames. They are a little rough right now but with a little beveling and glue I think this is going to work.
There seems to be stuff missing from in there...
Need to work up a motor mount and install before I glue the individual sections together. I will also need to add extensions to the wing cut outs so that the wing with the aileron intact can be installed - I will be gluing the wing in permanently.
DamoRC
p.s. - polyphobia and mycrophobia are real ailments, I am not sure that there is such a thing as polymycrophobia.
EDIT: Plans added. Attached zip file contains tiled and full sized PDFs along with the Sketchup, DoubleCAD, and .DXF files. Enjoy.
EDIT: Plans updated 20th Aug, 2018 to correct an error in the motor mount.
Polyphobia - the fear of many things
Polymycrophobia - the fear of many small things
My polymycrophobia has been in remission for some time now. Just as well as I deal with my ongoing addiction to gorilla glue and my unhealthy relationship with Sketchup. However, following the wonderful 540 build thread by @PsyBorg, especially Post #1 where he shows the plans and the many, many, parts to build this fabulous plane, I had to go have a lie down. No amount of therapy or pharmaceutical intervention was going to allow me to tackle the plane as is.
The FT Edge has been beautifully engineered by Andres and per the plans I am sure she will be a robust craft. But I decided to see if I could adapt the plans to better fit my style of building which typically excludes any part smaller than my head. The area I wanted to tackle was the fuselage.
After identifying the parts in the plans that form the fuselage shape, I took screen captures and imported the image into Sketchup (my precious). The images were all scaled identically and to the ruler on the plans. I then tried to draw out the fuse "surface" in a flattened form, doing my best to ensure that the sections lined up correctly.
About 75% of the way through I realized that working in 2D was not going to cut it so using some of the angles measured from the formers on the plans, I folded the parts to generate a 3D model. For the most part, these pieces folded together well and only minor changes were needed to get everything to line up properly.
Of course the irony is that I now needed to unfold the parts again to make draft plans. As you might have guessed, I am going to use the score->gorilla glue->frame approach to this build.
Okay, so the part count is not minimal, but the fuse/canopy is just three parts and you need 5 frame parts to hold the lot together while the glue dries. I can keep the frames and re-use them the next time I need to build / re-build.
Got the parts printed and cut tonight and I dry fit them into frames. They are a little rough right now but with a little beveling and glue I think this is going to work.
There seems to be stuff missing from in there...
Need to work up a motor mount and install before I glue the individual sections together. I will also need to add extensions to the wing cut outs so that the wing with the aileron intact can be installed - I will be gluing the wing in permanently.
DamoRC
p.s. - polyphobia and mycrophobia are real ailments, I am not sure that there is such a thing as polymycrophobia.
EDIT: Plans added. Attached zip file contains tiled and full sized PDFs along with the Sketchup, DoubleCAD, and .DXF files. Enjoy.
EDIT: Plans updated 20th Aug, 2018 to correct an error in the motor mount.
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