[ProfLooney]

Now in the first part pic you see I have 2 baggies labelled front spar and rear spar. I will be using box spars on this and for my webbing which will be at every full length rib like was in scale planes, I am saving all the cutouts for the spars. With removing a little on 2 sides I will have my webs without cutting out extra stuff. which saves laser time and cost. Sure you have to trim them but hey thats part of building this isnt a Barf hehehe.


Another thing is the stacks I have rubber banded up are only abt half the parts. lol and with 3 stacks of riblets to capstrip and knowing I have at least that many more its gonna be a case of beer job for sure.


I will be using a capstrip technique I invented to make capstripping easy and also to give me a very scale looking 3D capstrip.

Most people use a piece of balsa or ply on top of the rib for a capstrip. This is a pain to line up and for a scale rib you would have 3 sections of rib and have to jig them all. Most capstrips on WWI planes we on average 3/8" by 3/4 to 7/8" wide. a lot of them were also grooved to fit down on top of the rib. Just putting a thin peice of balsa or ply on top may work but how do you sand the wing so that your capstrips are all level. Most ppl will have one side higher than another because of it being hard to get a thin piece on top of an already thin rib.

My Method is to keep the rib as 1 piece. I also add to the ribs profile making it slightly larger and to the size it would be with the scale capstrip in place. then with the rib laying flat on the table I just take some square stock and glue it to the face of the rib then flip it over and repeat. takes abt the same amount of time as the other method to do and gives us enough to sand our wings level. I will show more as soon as everything is popped out and I start stripping.