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Laminated Outlines

A great approach for making curved laminations for aircraft structures. Place a nylon cable tie on either side of a pack of wet, glue-coated balsa strips and wrap the bundle with nylon thread. Bend the bundle into a curve and pin it to your work board. After the glue has dried, the thread can be cut and the ties easily separated. Adapted from 400 Great R/C Modeling Tips by Jim Newman, Volume II, an Air...

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