P-5151DR paper model?

[Tophe]

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/ .
I donated 10 Euros even if this is free.

[Tophe]

Drawing my project is more easy than the future building...

[Tophe]

I doubt I will be able to buid a parabolic spinner from that...:

[Tophe]

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

[Tophe]

Of course I cancelled the P-5151DR project, focusing on the P-51R part. Well, this is turning 3D anyway...

[Tophe]

ANd with the radial engine:

[Tophe]

This is not a complete failure: this has completed my collection of drawings:

[Brian da Basher]

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

[Tophe]

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
I have "ordered" it, but I feel I am still unable to build it...

[RussC]

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.

[GTX_Admin]

Good advice Russ.  Anyway, isn't paper just really thin, processed wood...

[Tophe]

Yes, thanks a lot RussC. I feel like a shameful beginner with those paper-models...

[RussC]

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.

[Tophe]

Yes, the lack of instantaneous glue was one of my problems, with my kid running into the drying "parts"...