Step 1: Body

Today, we are going to craft the body part of the airplane. Body has its main function as a center to attach all of the parts together e.g. wing, plane. In real life, body is for loading goods or passengers.

Body of an airplane craft is made from grade-A foam with 5 inches thick. We will cut a foam into rectangle with a size of 11x60 cm. (picture below)



Draw a line on the foam into a size of 11x60 cm.



Connect the big foam cutter (the first one that we talk about yesterday) with direct current transformer(12 volts). Put the wire on the line that we draw and then cut the foam. You will see that it's easy and stable.


Finish! See the foam we cut ... smooth. It's way lot better than using cutter.


Next, we will cut the foam to this shape.


Put together patterns of the body. Make sure that the patterns are on the same line.


Connect the small foam cutter with the DC transformer (6 volts). Cut the foam on the pattern line.


Smooth and sharp ...


Cut from front to center and then start from center to the back. Make sure to hold the patterns stably. Don't move them.


Cut the tail part.


Then, measure on the top of the body. Measure from the front about 2.5 cm and draw the line.
This is for placing the wing.


Measure the length as 15 cm and then draw the line again.


Draw a margin about 1 cm from each side.


Then, widen the mouth of soldering iron to about 3 cm.


Use it to rub off onto the line that we draw with the depth of 3 cm.


Finally, it should look like this.


Woo!! We now finish the body part of the airplane. Let us take a break. And then we will continue with the rudder later.

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