Beyond The Sprues

Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: Tophe on November 04, 2012, 11:12:57 PM

Title: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 04, 2012, 11:12:57 PM: I have printed 2 pages of P-51D and one of F4U to make (I hope) a double P-51 Zwilling (with separate tails), one half having a radial engine.
The sources are at http://paperaircraft.blogspot.fr/ (http://paperaircraft.blogspot.fr/) .
I donated 10 Euros even if this is free.
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 05, 2012, 01:08:35 AM: Drawing my project is more easy than the future building...
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 05, 2012, 04:06:03 PM: I doubt I will be able to buid a parabolic spinner from that...:
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 05, 2012, 09:33:01 PM: With my kid touching all and destroying faster than I was building, I got this result... meaning... while I am a bad plastic/resin modeller, I am an even worse paper modeller ??? :(
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 05, 2012, 09:34:49 PM: Of course I cancelled the P-5151DR project, focusing on the P-51R part. Well, this is turning 3D anyway...
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 05, 2012, 09:36:00 PM: ANd with the radial engine:
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 06, 2012, 12:10:00 AM: This is not a complete failure: this has completed my collection of drawings:
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Brian da Basher on November 06, 2012, 03:06:30 AM: Your efforts never fail to get my attention, mon ami! Despite the droopy wings (you could explain that away in your back-story, make it like the U-2), I really like the radial engine!

Please keep these great, imaginative projects coming!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 09, 2012, 12:51:26 PM: Looking for Mustang cartoons, I found another paper model, free, at
http://ecardmodels.com/cartoon-mustang-chinese-plaf-paper-model-p-2271.html?osCsid=250171116396d2ac5cace964b0d0dace (http://ecardmodels.com/cartoon-mustang-chinese-plaf-paper-model-p-2271.html?osCsid=250171116396d2ac5cace964b0d0dace)
I have "ordered" it, but I feel I am still unable to build it...
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: RussC on November 10, 2012, 07:00:53 AM: Quote from: Tophe on November 05, 2012, 04:06:03 PM
I doubt I will be able to buid a parabolic spinner from that...:

Then don't. For some of the detail bits, use wood. Take a dowel rod with diameter of desired spinner, put it into a pencil sharpener to achieve a basic cone and then sandpaper that to the correct parabola or ogival form. Some clear resin or shellac or varnish and sanding followed with paint or colored markers.

Longtime all-paper builders of course say that is being heretical but if you cannot form the parts that are smallest, use wood to get there. Save your abilities for larger parts as wings and body.

Like any hobby or art medium, practice is required.
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: GTX_Admin on November 10, 2012, 09:35:23 AM: Good advice Russ. Anyway, isn't paper just really thin, processed wood... ;)
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 10, 2012, 10:12:28 AM: Yes, thanks a lot RussC. I feel like a shameful beginner with those paper-models... :-\ :icon_crap:
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: RussC on November 10, 2012, 04:47:47 PM: Quote from: GTX_Admin on November 10, 2012, 09:35:23 AM
Good advice Russ. Anyway, isn't paper just really thin, processed wood... ;)

Bristol art paper is thin ply wood. :)

And gluing paper is an art to itself and with practice, can be done without clamping or even holding parts.

What would really make it more fun if there were a equivalent of CA glue for paper. Regular CA impregnates paper but for bonding is tricky.
Title: Re: P-5151DR paper model?
Post by: Tophe on November 10, 2012, 06:55:50 PM: Yes, the lack of instantaneous glue was one of my problems, with my kid running into the drying "parts"... ;)