Fiddlers Green

This one is for the designers who have a little experience and I'm sure Rob may be able to help out. I understand the design process but I do have a couple of questions.

After the final rescan of the part back into the computer and completion of the panel lines etc., do you use a specific scale on the model when placing it on the page or do you work for the best fit to the page, and then do the calculations for determining the wsam percentage?

Second, if you start with say a wing panel and place it on a page to "best fit", what is the easiest or best way to resize the remaining pieces to ensure that they remain in the same scale as the panel?

Maybe it's just me but I got a little confused trying to figure it out.

Howzit

I can answer half of the question. No specific scale when designing models. Place the largest single part on one sheet then scale the rest from there. Chip's philosophy is that of as much model as possible per page (minimise the open spaces) with no specific scale. Scale is then worked out with respect to WSAM. As for resizing pieces equally I'm also in the dark.

Niki

Resizing the rest of the parts:

I don't know what program you use--I use Photoshop, or Photoshop Elements. In these programs, you can enlarge by a percentage. When you enlarge that first part to fit the page--simply remember the percentage by which you increased it. Then--go back and increase the rest of the pages containing your design by that percentage. After that--it's simply a matter of copying and pasting each individual part (or groups of parts) to new 7.56 x 10.5 pages. Be sure to mind the correct orientation of the parts. Each part will be a separate layer--so you can move them around the page to get the best fit.

The best thing to do, though is to design to the page, to begin with, if you're going that route. Determine the size of, say a wing panel, and then calculate the scale and go from there.

that being said--I prefer to design to a standard scale--as then I can display my models together, create diorama bits and such. My scaling is 1/48 for medium sized aircraft--liike my Hunter and Fury, and 1/72 for larger aircraft, such as the DC-9 and F2Y. The parts all were at or near full page size. Working with standard scales makes designing less difficult IMHO.

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Rob's description is totally accurate, Chip wants a version as large as possible with the page size. I'm painfully aware of this as I have 3 models done but not to Chips specs. I'm working on a 4th. Most of my time now will be to set these up to specs. I'm using Elements as Rob described and seems to be simple resizing, but use portrait and grain issues with paper, set to 200 dpi for resizing when done rendering

Don't expect too much from me, though, I'm afraid my time is limited to work on this, and I may NEVER get this done, although I have every confidence I can. I'd really love to get the planes I have out for everyone to try out, but for job, kids, snow, ect......