smiling albert
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Not much to show yet buthave learnt a lot this Summer about how to bend foam and hopefully make the right size formers.
Stay tuned
This is my efforts so far pretty rubbish but I now know that foam has a grain and you need to bend with the grain and I think I may have a solution to the dodgy joints you see.
It’s all to do with the size of the formers and bearing in mind the ones I am using are for paper planes which have no thickness I had real trouble with this .
I don’t think its just a case of reducing their circumference by 6 mm,the foam is thicker where it’s bent less and thinner where it’s bent more,eg in “corners”.
My next attempt will be to place the full size paper former on a piece of thick cardboard and cut out the outline.
Then place this template on a piece of paper,cut a thin strip of foamboard and bend it to fit inside the cardboard template and then draw the reduced shape on the inside.
Pins may help to hold it in place.
The main thing is it should be symmetrical so may make 2 one for each side .
Then cut them out of cardboard first and see which one fits the premade fuselage section best
It’s a bit of a faff but if it makes the right size formers it’ll be worth it.
Any easier suggestions welcome!
Stay tuned
This is my efforts so far pretty rubbish but I now know that foam has a grain and you need to bend with the grain and I think I may have a solution to the dodgy joints you see.
It’s all to do with the size of the formers and bearing in mind the ones I am using are for paper planes which have no thickness I had real trouble with this .
I don’t think its just a case of reducing their circumference by 6 mm,the foam is thicker where it’s bent less and thinner where it’s bent more,eg in “corners”.
My next attempt will be to place the full size paper former on a piece of thick cardboard and cut out the outline.
Then place this template on a piece of paper,cut a thin strip of foamboard and bend it to fit inside the cardboard template and then draw the reduced shape on the inside.
Pins may help to hold it in place.
The main thing is it should be symmetrical so may make 2 one for each side .
Then cut them out of cardboard first and see which one fits the premade fuselage section best
It’s a bit of a faff but if it makes the right size formers it’ll be worth it.
Any easier suggestions welcome!