Thanks Don. I like how the stain isn't overpowering the wood grain and allows detail to show.
I managed to get quite a bit done over the past week. I've been trying to complete instruction 1 step each evening.
To join the two truss assemblies, I first had to clamp them the correct distance apart, then glue in the bottom cross laterals. Then I added the wind struts (the cross bracing inside the structure), and then the top laterals. It's kind of like building a spider web out of 1/16 basswood.
I also attached the floor beams at this time.
I then glued the bottom struts. Both the floor beams and bottom struts are drilled for the hanger rods to run through. Since the floor beam were already in place, I used those to locate the struts by running the piano wire through both prior to gluing.
The last thing I did tonight was to installing the hanger rods and the tie rods. Now it's starting to look like something!
However I have run into a problem. I can't seem to find any photos or plans of what the bridge abutments for this sort of bridge would look like, either wood or stone. I would prefer to scratchbuild out of wood but stone would be okay as well.
I managed to get quite a bit done over the past week. I've been trying to complete instruction 1 step each evening.
To join the two truss assemblies, I first had to clamp them the correct distance apart, then glue in the bottom cross laterals. Then I added the wind struts (the cross bracing inside the structure), and then the top laterals. It's kind of like building a spider web out of 1/16 basswood.
I also attached the floor beams at this time.
I then glued the bottom struts. Both the floor beams and bottom struts are drilled for the hanger rods to run through. Since the floor beam were already in place, I used those to locate the struts by running the piano wire through both prior to gluing.
The last thing I did tonight was to installing the hanger rods and the tie rods. Now it's starting to look like something!
However I have run into a problem. I can't seem to find any photos or plans of what the bridge abutments for this sort of bridge would look like, either wood or stone. I would prefer to scratchbuild out of wood but stone would be okay as well.