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Making A Simple Door

Step 2 : Drawing the panels

The second thing to do is to draw the panels on the base of the door. This makes it very easy to glue the planks in place at a later time. This also gives a good visual impresion of how the door will be when it's finished.

I'm a modeler who's got to see what the result will be in the end. I hate building things and then finding out I worked with the wrong sizes, colours or whatever. Therefore I always draw lines on my doors and put figures next to it, to see if the overall looks fits the image I got in my head.

Step 3 : Make a vertical plank

Now we have a door that fits our needs, and we continue our build. The next step is to make one of the vertical planks. Cut or saw a plank in the desired size.
For the planks (and panels too) I use balsa wood. Balsa wood is very soft and very, very easy to cut, sand, file or whatever. I decided to use balsa for the planks and that comes in very handy now...why... I'll tell you : we are going to glue the Balsa plank on the Abachi base. Since Abachi is quite a bit harder than Balsa it is very easy to sand the balsa until it is the exact size of the base. Sand it after you have glued the Balsa onto the Abachi base. Do this very gently, because Balsa really is a very soft material...you sand off too much within no time.

Glueing Balsa can be a drag when you don't have the right glue. I use glue that is manufactured by "UHU". UHU attached the name "HART" to this glue . I feel this is a very good and easy to use glue. The biggest advantage....it dries very fast...just two or three minutes at a room's temperature and it's ok to move on.
When you glue Balsa, always glue both items that got to be glued together. In our case put glue on both the base and the plank. Let them dry completely (with the "hart" glue this takes only one to two minutes). Now put glue again on either the base or the plank and press the items firmly together. Within a minute the items bond.