There are a lot of parts crammed into that small shipping box. I wish the card stock wasn't rolled up inside a body tube. You can't glue down the fin skins or covered detailed pieces when the card stock has a curl in it.
I first tried getting out the curl by setting them between the pages of a heavy book. That helped but still didn't get them flat.
I set a clean piece of copy paper down on my ironing board.
The curved card stock was set on the paper, printed side down.
The iron was plugged in. Settings were DRY (no steam) and the temperature was set one step below cotton. If this temp setting doesn't do the job, you can always try again a bit hotter. It's best to start a little cooler.
Keep the iron moving. You don't want the black ink to overheat and transfer off the card stock. Iron a bit, check the curve and iron a little more.
Flat and ready to cut out the skins.
It's interesting to note that the kit included two extra fin skins.
Build time this post: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Total build time so far: 24 hours, 25 minutes
I do remember use an iron in the manner you describe to flatten out the curled "aeroshroud" part on the X-30, Space Clipper and HL-20 from Quest. Although these parts were going to be curled anyway, but the curl as they came out of the package was in the wrong direction.
ReplyDeleteCurled cardstock is annoying but kinked and creased would be worse.