I found out that my local junior college has a composites program so I'm going to have to take some courses. I have a few projects that I have been throwing around for a while and this will be the perfect excuse to get started. I want to make a composite FW190D warbird and a composite speed plane. Anyways, I'm going to start on the speed plane first as it should be a much easier project. I'm going to make a fiberglass fuselage and use a standard Q500 wing and hopefully end up with a 120mph plane. One question I have is where do I go to print out a DXF file format, so that I can get started on my plug?

If you've got it in dxf, why not send your file to a laser cutter and have them make your wood pieces? Saves a lot of time and incredibly accurate!

There are some free cad programs on the net that will print a dxf, you have to look because most won't, but I know I've been able to find them in the past.

I found one(free2design) that will print, but I need to be able to print out the fuselage profile in full size. I want to use the print out as a template to cut out two pieces of ply to build on. I'm going to place the formers on the cut ply, fill in between the formers with foam, sand the foam to shape, then finish off with some kind of filler to a smooth glossy surface. I have tried enlarging at kinkos before but it was a real hassel and hard to get the size exactly right.

I'm going to build similar to what this guy is doing with a yak, but I will be using wood and foam rather than all foam.

Did you ask Kinkos if they can print from a dxf file. Or any of the other bigt name "office" companies? Try a drafting supply company. The drafting company should be able to run it off on a plotter.

Your junior college should have some sort of CAD training and possibly a large format plotter. Find someone in there to open and plot you a copy. Any version of AutoCAD, Solidworks, etc. can print these at any scale...or you can print on smaller sheets of paper and tape them together to make one large print (I've done this before quite successfully).

Hey, thanks. I could use wood too, but this foam was at hand and decide to give it a shot. It turns out well so far. I did print all parts on tabloid size laser jet. Only couple of gluing was require to get full size plans. May be next one will be all wood too. What size your FW is going to be?