Man! I wish I’d had this thing four years ago when I cut out three sets of Skyray 35 ribs individually by hand.īut, the Skybolt 1/2A CL that I started on wasn’t doing it for me, so I also downloaded the plans for the 1/2A Red Wing, from the December ‘64 Flying Models and I did up a set of files to cut the ribs. I'd never be able to do them that clean with an X-Acto knife and a sander. I had to do some more learning, but then finished up by cutting out the fuselage sides and formers.Īs you can see, the ribs are pretty nigh perfect. svg files from Inkscape to my Cricut machine and cut the ribs and the upper and lower fuse sheeting from 1/16” balsa. My initial trials were unsuccessful, so I switched over to using Inkscape (a free program, equivalent to Corel Draw) and started tracing the plans.

I figured this would be great for building my models, so I went to Outerzone and downloaded the plans for the Skybolt 1/2A CL plane and started experimenting with converting the. That had nothing, nothing to do with why I bought the Maker….

It just so happens, quite coincidentally mind you, that the Maker can cut 1/16” and 3/32” balsa. My wife does quilting, so I figured that it would be great for her. For Christmas I got a Cricut Maker machine for my wife.

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