Hello, folks, new carver here!

I am a self-educated carver. I have carved ships and airplanes our of solid pine, but I just fell in love with airplanes. So far I carved a Cessna 120, a Brewster Buffalo, and using that Brewster buffalo as a yardstick, I am carving planes on such a scale as to be consistent with that model. I'm working on a new model, a B-25 Mitchel bomber, that has a wingspan of two feet.

I find I'm a bit crude when it comes to painting, especially fine decal work. Does anyone have a good recipe for this? I'm currently trying to come up with a formula to equate the circumference of a circle to a ray between the points of a five-pointed star. I'd like to use a compass to etch the circle, then use a formula such that each star point is 72 degrees from the next. Any ideas?

Would love to see some of your work if you can put some pics up would be great. Welcome to the forum.:2tsup:

welcome to the forum. when painting in detail work I find that using one of the fingers as a steady keeps me from moving too much. It is more like your sign painters do using a stick as a steady. That's why they stay in the line.:U:U:U

Welcome!!!

welcome to the forum
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Hello and welcome.
Enjoy the ride !!

what about finding a picture of a 5 pointed star on the web and printing it to a scale you like then putting it over the plane and mark the points with a pin, Then you can work out the rest from there.
I get that you'd like to know something like if I use 1 inch radius, extending to say 1.25 inch will give you 5 points on the edge instead of the 6 it would give. Its a nice puzzle and I'll now need to go work it out. I want to know as well now.

OK Found out how to do it with just a compass.
http://www.blurtit.com/q430055.html has a description.