PRINTING OUT SAILS presented by BEANO BOY

A4 Size Paper for The Printer. 

The Printer is a good tool to use in the world of model making or indeed toy collecting. Here i deal with windward sails of a double sided kind. 

Some guys paint toys and turn them with great skill into models of something that is ,or has been out there in the real world, however i just paint when i am able to, my little toys!

WARLORD GAMES KITS,are sometimes short of the number of sail sheets required to finish their ships. Sure you can complain and get nowhere or buy the sail sheets from them, but i put that into motion on their own on line Shop. However with postage charge i was looking at a total of £9.00 to replace one set of sails. Which is not on as far as i am concerned. So my Dear Mrs B, printed some sails sheets out for me from those that i already had. Of course she is quite clever at doing stuff like that ,whereas i am quite a peanut! However i did realise i needed the reverse print out to obtain a double sided sails sheet.

I decided as long as they were printed out like that the entire two sheets could be stuck together rather than trying to cut them out and then stick them all together.

So above are to sheets of sails that i needed one being a reversed print out.

i love to work out problems rather than spend even more money replacing that,which should have been there  in the first place. i have since been made aware that others too were short of the required sails to rig out their bought on Line Kits. So i set too, to resolve what i saw as quite an issue. Well after all ships without sails are only fit enough to go nowhere.

So being the same cut out size they just needed sticking together in order to form each double sided sail.

i used the glue above for the simple task in hand,and it is used the world over in schools and therefore is safe for use,,,,,, even by adults!

i rubbed the glue stick onto the back of one sheet and lined the other one up and slowly placed it home in the correct square away,way. While it was still damp i rolled the sheet between my finger and thumb so that gradually it formed a bow into the sheet.

This was to impress a memory into the damp paper which would help me roll out the bellowing effect of wind behind each sail later on ,on the build.

They soon dried out and were easy to cut out.

I cut them out larger than i needed with the clear headed way of trimming them to the required size later.

The picture above and below shows each side of the sails needed to complete the ship i had painted and glued up.

 A member upon Benno's Figure Forum, informed me that he had,had trouble with his printed out sails that he needed in order to finish his kit. The sails had shrunk! So i looked into it and gave him the self same advice that i have shown here including especially the rolling of the sail sheet while damp it stretches in and out the memory of being one piece.  His result was successful and he thanked me for it which was kind of nice of him. 

It is hoped that this will help others to attain the weather gauge on their ships if their sails have blown away upon the winds of incompetence .

A slight Update 11/10/2020 all sails needed for my 38 ships have now been printed out as already described here. So lots of sticking sailcloth together is ongoing. Extra work, but certainly well worth the effort involved.

                                  The support platform i made out of throw away trash!

 Have fun and stay safe,stay well.         BB