So impressed, maybe I should have gone with foam board too. It's hard to find down here tho.
Do you guys draw your designs up on a pc first?
What program?
ours all started as hand drawn. i then took those into inkscape @ scale and traced.
How did you learn to do that?
by doing this. 2 months ago i had never touched inkscape. 4 months ago i maybe learned about tinkercad and CAD design. as they say, necessity is the mother of all creation. i didn't know how to do it, so i googled it, youtube'd it, anything i could and just put in the time. i did 6 different designs and prints for this plane. that doesn't count the canopy, control horns, v-tail horns, ....all of which i have never done.
ours all started as hand cut, using $1 store foam. once i was able to convert the hand drawn plans into .svg files, i took it to our local hackerspace and cut it with a Co2 laser.
welcome to the rabbit hole!
Feeling like I put a lot of time into mine and kinda missed the brief now dammit.
when you posted your article the other day, i had the exact same feeling. "man, this guy just rocked it!" regardless, of the final results, the key is we all end up with some really cool planes and we learned. next time will be eve better!
laters,
me