After studying the plans and choosing engine configurations, one of the first steps for me was to start making templates. There are lots of great ways to do this, from printing out a second set of plans and cutting out the parts (too costly for me) to placing carbon paper under the plans and tracing the parts (waay to difficult) to simply using tracing paper over the plans and gluing the tracings onto the wood.
I settled on the use of tracing paper to trace the parts which are then glued onto poster board, cut to shape, and traced onto the wood. Then I cut the parts. This method does come with an extra step, (gluing the tracing paper to the poster board) but I don't like gluing paper to the parts.
One beauty of scratch-building is your total control over the build. Total control starts here in the choices we make.
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