Now it is time to start making some frames, finally... I might jump on another part of a ship while waiting for glue to dry...
I gave up on glass as a foundation to work on, since the distance between plan and actually frame (sitting on glass) is several millimetres which can cause me mis-positioning of frames, etc so I ended up "stealing" cooking paper (very handy, non sticking paper) and place it on top of copy of a plan, which was cut in strips, having only one row of frames visible. The plan was fixed on piece of bright white wood, from kitchen door I bough in Ikea, as-is. Very handy, perfectly flat with that blue protective paper still on the door finish.
Door was glued to two scrap pieces of wood, so I can squeeze under it my long jaw clamps. On top of a plan, I fixed parchment paper. Plan is very visible and parchment paper allows you to squeeze frames, with glue without stickiness. I believe it is betted than glass in that area. CA can easily stick to the glass but it will not stick to paper, at least in my experience. For glueing I am using mostly white glue but on some parts CA as well.
Frame 10 with all parts is ready...
I also measured distance between frame sides so will try keeping it as close as possible to measured distances. I measured on two areas:
So.... here we are..
And final glueing and drying...
Another one done, using the same method..
Three done so far; might need to speed up process but missing proper clamps... Yet another time for me, the truth become more truth again: don't buy cheap tools, including clamps...I had 10 on those black clamps (above photo), very affordable price, but when I start using them, only 5 were usable; I was unable to open clamps to use them so they ended up on "I might use this sometime for something else" pile of scrap things.
Happy modelling..
... also, keeping a good pile of notes for future projects..
