You are not hijacking 'my' thread. Its everyone's thread. Paul (PaperAir) started a new thread for his full scale build. This was a good move as he will face different challenges. For example, he will need to make support pieces from scratch. He already has done a great job modifying the instrument panel to fit into the capsule with some additional full size parts. Because of the larger size, he added more detail to the Periscope. In 1/4 scale, a lot of that detail gets missed but when you blow it up, it makes a difference. When I build my full size model, I'll be adding lots of detail that isn't currently in the paper model.
I have said it before but this is an Engineering model designed to help me track and design the full size parts. Very little has been done to make a 'paper' model for the masses. Most of the instructions were written after building the parts. The extra parts I have built have just been to get dimensions and fits correct. Again, I am always thinking about the full size model more than the 1/4 scale one.
Viewers identify builds with people, whether its PaperAir, Tim, Scott or Closet. You are the only one currently building the 1/4 model on this (that) thread. There are a few more builders working but they do not participate in discussion groups. I do not check my PM's. I participate in several discussions on various topics and it gets hard to follow. I say in almost every post, email me if you have private questions.
There are some duplicate pieces. When I first started making paper parts, I would often lift geometry from a drawing and paste it onto a print sheet. This was mostly to avoid a million pages with just a few parts each on them. I usually made each part 2 or 3 times to make sure it fit right. I often made sub-assemblies out of order to verify fits within assemblies that couldn't really be used. Sometimes I would plan on doubling or tripling parts to find out they were strong enough with one less layer. So there could be a few 'extras' floating around. I spent hundreds of hours on paper parts to try to come up with instructions and such. The drawings for full size parts are arranged completely different.
The screens on 51a seem to be part of the snorkle assembly. They are not seen in the paper model and I may not have finished them here. Looking a little closer, it appears there may be enough parts to finish one. There are two in the capsule. The Familiarization guide can help. The baroswitch bracket is on Card10a, to get the color right. This is a misprint in the instructions. Sorry. The photo shows them well. The other parts are on Card53b but the color won't match the picture. By now, you should be able to use some scraps to finish the parts. For Paul's sake, he'll probably re-design these for the full scale model because they are easier to see and could use a little help...
I noticed the forward hatch parts on Card 53b. The hatch is NOT done. I lost some files and need to re-create them. Its not a big deal and I'll try to get it done in the next few days.
Paul, I see you also PM me several weeks back. Sorry I didn't see it. I stumbled across Closet's while cleaning out a trash folder. My spam blocker was (and will continue) filtering the notifications.
Scott
scott at spacecraftreplicas dot com