The Lavoie Method of Building Stick Fuselages (Part 1)

The Lavoie Method of Building Stick Fuselages (Part 1)

[@direktorpresident]

I remember e-mailing you about ten years ago when you were developing this method, and I have used it ever since! Thank you forever!! Best wishes Charles

[@john.t645]

thank you for a beautifully simple,accurate method of building

[@harrier1934]

Hello John, don't know if you will receive this. If you do can you give me a bit of background on yourself and what model types you are building as well as where you live. Have you passed the idea on to any friends?

[@mkii1964]

Thank you for sharing Mr. Lavoie!

[@tedthomas470]

Hi Marcel. Nice to see you still active in the hobby. I am hoping to build again soon myself after seeing all the beautiful work in the Facebook group.

[@lbchuma]

Excellent build series, sir. You rival Don Ross in the succinct export of your knowledge. I am returning to building after not having the mentorship or the patience in my youth. As an adult, I can appreciate KISS principles and yours is great. Thank you for sharing. By the way, I came to this video from the ENDLESS LIFT website, so kudos to them too.

[@56squadron]

I could be wrong and probably am, but I could swear I knew of people who did it this way back in the 70's and 80's... or at least close to this. Oh well... what's old is always new again. I don't recall anyone using push sticks for the pins however but that is probably due to your choice of building board. I am somewhat surprised to see that you use drywall (gypsum board) as a building surface. No wonder so many of your pins are bent. I, and I think every modeller I know in the US has always used Homasote as a building board. It's sold as a sound deadening or insulating board, but takes pins easily yet holds them quite firmly. It has no equal IMHO when it comes to model building. Thanks for the videos. I have always used a method very similar but not identical to yours. (the building process is very close but I never made any special tools, markers or cutters) I always found there are enough X-Acto head variations to cover any need.

[@maverick50616]

Great idea, I will have to try your method out. It sure seems to make building more precise and more enjoyable.

[@WIE110]

thanks Jon for sharing, nice method!

[@mkii1964]

What do you use to cut the razor blades to glue on the popsicle stick?

[@chrissorlie5291]

How do you cut the razor blades ???!! Thanks

[@Rodsupremos]

spantastic

[@johnstenborg3461]

...i don’t n’derstand a thing...n’thats good enough for a meee...

[@philippebourgeois5232]

Bonjour Marcel, Here is a video of you flying some of your models. Voici pour vous une video de Marcel et ses modèles . kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4KwfZZ4mKmppMk