Cambgems thats a great design!
Must have been tough to execute?
how did you position the curvy strips? tack down with glass cleaner the iron into place?
It the black outline trim tape?
I work in a printshop prepress so I plan on outputting the Illustrator file to a full size paper sheet as a template and cutting it on a light table...
Minnflyer, I'd love to see your tiger pics!
Steve
ORIGINAL: Campgems
ORIGINAL: Popriv
I'm drawing up my Tiger 60 outline to scale in Adobe Illustrator and I'm trying out some designs there.
In the past I just had a general Idea and made it up as I went along.
I was wondering how you decide/plan your colors and design????
steve
Steve, I've got Adobe Illustrator but haven't got far with using it for designing patterns. On my llast build, a rebuild actually, I used Rhino 3d to lay out the pattern and then printed out the segments and cut the trim from thouse segments. What I had neglected to do was allow for the curvature of the wing, so the pattern didn't align as well as I hopped. I ended up importing the pattern into Illistrator to solid color the segments.
The next time, I'll make a 3D of the wing and lay the pattern on it, then turn the surface to a sheet. Things shoud fit better then.
The photos show the Rhino layout, and the finished results of my wing design.
Don
PS, a word of caution, When I covered the ailerons, I put it a twist. Simple matter of heating the covering and straightening the twist. However, I should have done that prior to putting on the trim. I discovered the twist doing my final check prior to it first flight after the rebuild. That has been a couple months back now and I'm a bit reluctatnt to put the heat gun to the covering now in fear it's going to screw up the trim, especally the automotive pin stripe outlines. I'm going to have to do it, I wouldn't dare to try to fly it with the twis in the ailerons.
Don