Thursday, February 1, 2018

Scale Plans & Dimensions in Aircraft Modelling - Part 2

Draw large for accuracy

Drawings that appear in many aircraft modelling magazines are not necessarily in a style that is suitable for direct model working, as they are what is known as 'drawn for reproduction, having some lines thicker than others. Such lines may cover a scale two or three inches in their thickness. The drawings always try to pick out surface detail like skin joints and rivet lines.

But the thickness of the outer lines is something to be careful of, but they are necessary for a good reason. The use of very fine lines, which would be suited to model Working would in any event start to break up and vanish in places during the printing process.

But to draw large? This is a contradiction in many ways. It is quite easy to sketch out a small shape rather than draw out a large one. But in order to get a really accurate small scale plan one must start with a large, very carefully plotted out drawing which can portray all the various small changes in profile and section, by drawing in a fine line and then photographically reducing it down to a smaller scale. However to create the large drawing in the first instance, one must have plenty of manufacturers dimensional data to hand.

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