How to make kites!

The common kite is made of bamboo as the skeleton and paper as the meat. Bamboo is the main material for making kite skeletons. Bamboo with a wall thickness of 3-5 cm is selected and cut into bamboo pieces, and the toughness of the bamboo pieces is used as the skeleton of the kite. Make various kite skeletons according to your hobbies, such as dragonflies and butterflies. Paper is the main material of covered kites. It is best to have fine and uniform fibers, toughness, moisture resistance and impact resistance, and white and clean colors. Paste the paper on the skeleton, then tie the string, and the kite is finished. Method of making paper kites: Tie two thin bamboo sticks (40-50 cm long, with a cross as the skeleton) and four short ones (with a rectangular frame, which is relatively stable and balanced) (ensure the adhesion with thin iron wire or super glue) and paste the paper. The paper should be tough, not thin or brittle, and firm along the border, so as to ensure that the paper is complete and flat in the process. Tail sticking: use two pieces of light paper, about 5-8cm wide and 3m- 10m long (which can be extended if necessary), and stick them on the left and right ends of the same side of the main body (if the main body is rectangular, stick them on the shorter side), so as to ensure that the two tails are equal in length after sticking, and the four ends of the line are fixed at the four corners of the main body and pulled in one place (making the line form a quadrangular pyramid) The shape of kites mainly imitates natural creatures, such as birds, insects, animals and geometric shapes. And the patterns are mainly designed according to personal preferences, such as promoting beautiful people, animals, butterflies, birds and so on. Kites are made of plastic besides silk and paper. The bone stems include bamboo sticks, wood and glue sticks. Recently someone designed a boneless kite. Today, the kite forms an air pillow, floats gently, and then rides in the wind. In China, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan, there is also a large kite, which is put into the blue sky at every kite festival. These kites vary in size from ten feet to twenty feet. Bone stems are made of bamboo and released by more than 100 people. 1. Tadpole kite diagram 1 is the skeleton diagram and tie-down diagram of tadpole kite. In order to facilitate the production of netizens, a scale grid is specially added. This kind of kite is very simple to make, and the requirements for materials are not very high. As long as you make it according to the map, you can achieve the purpose of flying. There are only two bamboo skeletons used in kites. The size of kites is generally about 450 mm wide, but it should not be too big or too small. Taking the width of 450 mm as an example, the width and height of transverse bamboo strips are 3 mm and 3 mm respectively. If the dead weight is reduced, the width and height can be symmetrically cut to 2 mm at the edge tip. Because this kind of kite belongs to semi-hard kite in structure, the wind force required for flight is generally around level 3, so for beginners, there is no need to worry too much about the generosity of bamboo strips. If the structure is heavy, the wind required for flight is slightly larger. The width and thickness of the vertical bamboo strips are 3.5 mm and the length is 620 mm, and the horizontal bamboo strips and the vertical bamboo strips are cross-tied together. The shielding material can be leather paper, rice paper, non-woven fabric, plastic film, silk, nylon yarn, etc. If paper is used, wrap the edges with thin threads to prevent tearing. Stick the mask material and bamboo strips together, and stick a tail with a width of 40mm and a length of 1500-3000mm with the same or different materials as the mask material (special reminder: it is forbidden to use conductive materials such as metal film to make the mask and tail). Tie the lifting wire according to the proportion shown in the figure. For beginners, because they have no experience at first, they are always worried that the messenger wire will not be tied well. In fact, as long as they pay attention to observation and study, they will soon master it. In order to facilitate the adjustment during flight, the length of the flying line can be left longer at first. For a kite with a racket, due to the particularity of its flight structure, if it is tied with a flying line of inappropriate length, it will only affect the flight angle. This time will help you learn and master the adjustment of lifting thread. Because the balance of this kind of kite mainly depends on the long tail, the requirements for the skeleton in the process of kite making are not very high, and it is a kite suitable for beginners to make. When flying, pull the back of the horizontal bar with thin thread to make the kite become an arc surface, which is easy to disperse the wind under the action of wind and make the kite fly stably. The mask painting of tadpole kite is relatively simple. I believe you have always seen frog tadpoles. If you want to save trouble, you can dye the whole kite black, and the effect of flying into the sky is also very interesting. In order to highlight the flying effect of the tadpole kite swing, after the kite is released, it is only necessary to increase or decrease the length of the tail. If the kite in flight is particularly stable, the tail length can be gradually reduced to increase the swing of the kite, but this is at the expense of the stability of the kite. Figure 22. The word "Wang" is named after its skeleton is similar to the word "Wang", which is what Beijingers call "fart curtain". The shadow of this kite can be seen everywhere. It is a kind of "popular kite" that many friends who like flying kites but have no professional production experience will make and fly, as shown in Figure 2. Like the tadpole kite, the size of this kite should not be too big, the width should be about 550 mm, and a total of ***4 bamboo strips make up the skeleton. The size of the bamboo chips in the skeleton is basically the same as that of the tadpoles above, and the accuracy of the bamboo chips is not very strict. The flight stability of kites is also balanced by the long tail. Take a kite with a width of 550 mm as an example. The length and width of the three transverse bamboo strips can be the same (short or slightly smaller), and the length, width and thickness are all 3.5-4 mm The materials of the mask and the two tails are the same as above. Like a tadpole kite, it is tied with two threads. Kite painting can draw all kinds of cartoons, figure paintings and so on. On the mask. A very creative painting is to draw a child's head on a mask and its long tail as its long logo. You can give full play to your imagination. Fig.33 Bagua Kite Bagua Kite is a traditional kite in China, and its shadow can be seen everywhere. Generally speaking, Bagua kites are suitable for flying in the case of large kites. The flying experience shows that the stronger the wind, the greater the flying angle of the kite. Because it belongs to the category of hard shooting, there is no place where the wind blows, so the popularity of kites is closely related to the change of wind power. If the wind is unstable, it is very interesting for the gossip kite to fly up and down. Fig. 3 is the skeleton diagram of the gossip kite. Bagua kite is simple to make, and the requirements for materials and binding are not very strict. As long as you follow the following requirements, you can generally achieve the purpose of flying. Bagua kite is named after the shape of the kite, because it comes from the octagon, and because it is consistent with the traditional gossip in China, so it is often called Bagua. In painting, traditional gossip graphics are generally used to draw. The skeleton of Bagua consists of two square shelves, and the size of the square skeleton is generally between 500-1000 mm. It's just that the size requirements of the two squares are the same. According to the size of the kite, only one rigid bamboo stick can be set for 500mm size, as shown in Figure 3. If it is larger than this specification, it is necessary to set a cross skeleton, and the size of bamboo strips should be larger, and it should be larger than the width in the thickness direction. Take the 500 mm Bagua kite as an example. The four bamboo strips forming a square are all 3mm wide and 500mm long. Tie two square skeletons together with chopped bamboo strips, and then tie the two squares together as shown in the figure to form an octagon. The cover material of the kite is the same as that of the two kites above. The kite has three lines, the position of which is shown in the picture. Like a tadpole kite, when flying, the kite is also drawn into an arc with thin lines in the center of the kite, which is beneficial to the kite's laxity in flight. Kites can fly without bending. it wont hurt you to try it Bagua kites are generally painted with traditional bagua patterns. The tail of a gossip kite is usually tied to a string with paper nails.