Given that Jim Kiger is over 90 years old, I decided to buy a few Replicraft WW1 plan sets from him today even though I don't have immediate need for them. His house is only 20 miles away so I went to get them in person. We chatted for almost an hour. He's a very nice guy, with a modeler only background, who just wanted to see decent plans for WW1 fighters. Not seeing many in the 1970's, he drew his own. He said he had access to several collections of factory drawings that others shared with him, including the Hanriot and SE5A.
The drawings are beautiful, each aircraft type documented on 8 to 12 large 30" x 80" sheets of paper.
Here's a question for the experienced builders around here. How do you best manage building from large plan sets that are almost 7 feet long? I laid these plans on an RV-8 wing and one sheet just about covered it! I thought, "How the heck would I mount these to view while building from them?!?" They're pretty cumbersome.
So what are your tricks of the trade? Do guys take them to a large format scanner and then print only the day's project? Do you build a large table or wall board dedicated to hold the plans? Do you just roll and unroll them with dirty builder hands?
Just wondering...
The drawings are beautiful, each aircraft type documented on 8 to 12 large 30" x 80" sheets of paper.
Here's a question for the experienced builders around here. How do you best manage building from large plan sets that are almost 7 feet long? I laid these plans on an RV-8 wing and one sheet just about covered it! I thought, "How the heck would I mount these to view while building from them?!?" They're pretty cumbersome.
So what are your tricks of the trade? Do guys take them to a large format scanner and then print only the day's project? Do you build a large table or wall board dedicated to hold the plans? Do you just roll and unroll them with dirty builder hands?
Just wondering...
