Hi Porky,
Thanks
!
It consists of mainly one single sheet of thin plastic, and three pieces of clear plastic.
These are the steps I followed(am repeating them from an earlier post):
1. Gauge the length of the canopy section at the base using a slide callipers set. It worked out to be 26mm(or 2.6 cm). The width was determined from a plastic strip at the top of the forward section, and came out at 1.6 cm.
2. Draw a rectangle upon a thin sheet of plastic, with length of 26 mm and width 1.6 cm.
3. Height was again determined using the Pythagoras theorem, since it slopes off at the sides.
4. Then I drew two more rectangles of length 26mm and width as determined from step 3.
Looks like this(with no gaps b/w rectangles):
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5. FInally, using a circle template, and the centre line of the middle rectangle, I drew a semicircular section on the plastic sheet. This forms the rear section adjoining the fuselage.
6. I then cut out the sheet as drawn.
7. Canopy frames are then drawn on the cut sections, in a vertical manner.
8. Taking a Coke can, I cut strips from it whose width was equal to the frames width.
9. I stuck this on to the drawn strips on the plastic with superglue.
10. After the strips have dried, I bent the strips so that the two outer plastic rectangles move inwards.
11. The rear circular section is then folded back into the V shaped section. Edges are glued.
12. Using a No 11 blade, I cut out the windows along the lines drawn and filed the edges.
13. FInally, I cut out strips from a transparent plastic sheet whose width is equal to the height of the windows. One edge was filed to get a knife edge. These were then stuck into the interior of the frames, knife edge going in, to get the windows.
That, in brief, is how I made my canopy.. Hope somebody finds this useful!
Am back on track for the campaign all right!! RAFfies, watch out...
!!
Cheers,
BP.
