ORIGINAL: Jeff Fokker
I had to design and build a hand roller type corrugation press. The skin is .002'' thick hard temper aluminum. Not a simulation. Did not want to build the plane without real aluminum. Just would not look right.
On my recent trip I had a chance to see a Junkers up close and I agree that if I were ever to model this type of aircraft I would just have to use a real aluminum skin. There's just so much detail there and the whole spirit of the thing is in the sheeting. In fact, if I did build one I'd be strongly tempted to make the aluminum skin the structural element it was on the original, that is, I'd skin the frame with aluminum and forget the balsa sheeting.