Ok not really... My original intention was to start building my "PAV-1" 1:22nd profile jet today but I ran into a couple complications. Number one is that we adopted this little girl Tuesday:
She's a albino Great Dane that we adopted from the Mississippi Great Dane rescue and we had to drive out to Oxford MS Monday then drive back Tuesday which is 600 mi each way. 9hrs each way is rough! So we spent most of today getting her settled into our new family thus while I was able to get to the hobby shop to get some stuff I needed for PAV-1, I ran out of time and got to the print shop too late.
So I tried to print out my plans in 1:22nd using a poster print option on my printer. In case you're unfamiliar, the poster option basically takes the image and breaks it up into sections that fits on a standard 11 x 8.5" paper, this effectively enlargening it. I had a helluva time trying to get the scale correct and all of my graphic programs kept freezing up when I tried to scale the image up above about 12,000 pixels. I wrestled with this for a couple hours and this is the best I could come up with:
The top image shows my Sky Angel F-35 which is roughly 1:22nd scale that I'm shooting for. As you can see it prints out to only 1:35 which is too small for even a 50mm fan. Hopefully I'll be able to get the print shop tomorrow otherwise it'll be next week before I can even do that. I am lucky enough to fly for a living but the job requires you to be gone for a few days at a time and I'll be on a trip over the weekend. So hopefully I'll have some foam cut real soon!
Stay tuned!
Fox
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