Starting the sides.

 Today I glued the angle blocks to the long girders. After that I glued the ends to both girders. I do have the wrong push pins so I ordered a bunch of socalled T-pins. You can order them at a....... knitting store! Never imagined I would place a order in such a store :) These pins are also used by the real RC airplane builders who do build the classic way with balsa:

I tested the X-brace placement and that will fit well. It will be challenging to get that neatly in place.

Stay tuned!

Starting the build.

 Yesterday I glued the main girders together. They are made out of 3 pieces. The top girders are 1-piece ones:

This morning I started with measuring the position of where the angle blocks have to be glued. I put them next to each other so that they are identicall when putting the sides of the bridge together. I mark them so that they are all four pointing the same way:

Detail of the angle blocks:

More to come!

Grtz, Ronald. 

Stained the wood!

 The kit is ready now, all wood is stained. I made a mix of 50% darkgrey, 25% lightgrey and 6% mahonie. The latter is the strong colour, after drying it is still a little reddish.

The test; right darkgrey, left my mix:

Workspace; kitchen. With special permission from the wife!:

First batch:

Drytime needed on towel paper:

Most done except the long pieces:

Almost dry:

This morning they where ready to be sorted and packed:

So far ready for the build! This way the pieces are way more easy to identify:

Stay tuned for the build coming weekand have a good sunday!

Grtz,Ronald

Build me a Howe Truss bridge!

 A total other project ongoing is this Campbell kit

 Today I visit a copyshop here in the neighbourhood and let them made copies so that my original drawings stay clean. The copies will be placed on a sheet of wood so that the sides and bottom can be build 100% flat:

This is what it will be:

 

The kit is provided with a good quality wood, and all extra is sorted out in little bags:

The main bridge parts and the extra parts plus details:

The bridge building is pure for me to practice, and I like this type of building a lot. The kit by the way I bought in England at Hattons, and a friend of mine picked it up when he visited Great Britain last week.

Stay tuned. This week I order some stain for the wood.

Btw, I have aquired a second Campbell kit which is the wharf kit. I will adapt the ACW plan to see if I can adapt the wharf kit to that plan:

Grtz, Ronald.