Bob Kuykendall wrote:
Earlier, flybynightkarmarepair wrote:

Due to the small sized, and compond curves on the Baby Bowlus
fuselage,
cutting and trimming the veneers is going to be your key challenge.
Each piece of veneer will need to be fitted to it's mate PRIOR to
gluing it up...

I dunno about that, Ryan, I think you're making it a lot harder than
it
was. Hawley and his crew weren't foolish, and they didn't have tons
of
time to spare, and they stomped out dozens if not hundreds of Baby
pods
in a relatively few short years. And they did it starting in the
Depression, so I think you'll find that they didn't have a lot of
money
to throw at it.

Well, they had some duPont money at least ;-)

Once you get the first one ship-set spiled out, you can use a router or
a shaper to chew out as many as you want, likety-split. And they had
the prototype to use as a full-size "tailer's dummy" to get a first
approximation of the shape of the veneers for the molded version -
neither advantage will apply to a one-off.