Hi All,
I have the plans for a Big Stick 60. I want to build it from scratch with these plans. What is the best way to get the profiles of the parts transfered to the wood? I thought of using carbon paper to do this but figured someone out there would have a better idea. How do you guys do this? Thanks

Most kit plans don't show the ribs or formers in profile. When you buy builders plans from someone like MAN plans section they have every part needed shown in profile for you. I take mine to Kinko's and have an extra set of plans made then use those to cut up as templates that will go over my wood. I can either draw the parts on the wood or just cut and paste the parts from the plans onto the wood then cut the kit. That's the difference between builders plans and kit plans.

Man plans? What is that? Is that someone I can buy plans from?

I just posted some photos in a post just below this one. MAN is just Model Airplane News, RCM is Remote Control Molder and they have a nice plans service. The AMA web site has plans too. All kinds of plans services out there and you can find hundreds of planes to build. In the photos you can see the difference between kit plans and builders plans.

A  method that seems to work well for people is the lacquer thinner method.  There is a more detailed tutorial on an old thread in
RC groups about but I'll try my best here.  You make a laser copy of the part, lay it face down on the wood.  Then you dampen, just dampen, a rag.  Take the rag and blot, blot, not rub, over the outline of the part. Dont use too much, stay nicen even.  If you do a search on RCgroups you can find the original thread.

If you Xerox the ribs, just lay them on the wood ink side down and iron them, it prints it on the wood.

http://media.radiocontrolzone.com/ma...GuidePDF-3.pdf

I have the Beaver and CL-215 MAN plans,,, good value,, a lot to look through

I've used this method many times,, Just make sure the part doesn't move while ironing

For larger parts, I use tracing paper