Chiribiri No. 5

[TheLurker]

Phew!

[Squirrelnet]

Phew indeed , nice job 

[TheLurker]

It marches very slowly.

[TheLurker]

Would you believe four evenings work?

[TheLurker]

A bit further forward with the dash and top cowling.

[TheLurker]

Top cowling louvres in place.

[TheLurker]

Nose plug shaped.

For such a small part there was rather a lot of work. 

[TheLurker]

Next bits.

Brush painting with aluminium paint is harder work than it should be and I may revisit bits of the motor panelling.

[OZPAF]

It looks pretty good to me Lurk.

I was amazed at your use of the approximation for the curved sheet on top of the engine cowl!

happy building.
John

[TheLurker]

...amazed at your use of the approximation...

Ummmm.  Why?  It's poor engineering/carpentry/dress-making practice and even poorer economics to waste material unnecessarily and wood doesn't grow on trees you know.  Well, it does, but err, umm ... Oh! You know what I mean!

[OZPAF]

Well I was impressed - I'll admit my ignorance - I had never heard of this approximation.

Happy building.

John

[TheLurker]

...I had never heard of this approximation.

No, nor had I until I went looking for a simple way to approximate the path length/circumference of an ellipse fairly closely and a bit of digging turned that up.  Handy innit?


Keep chipping away...

[TheLurker]

Inchworm, inchworm.  Measuring the marigolds...