Short Mayo Composite at 1/200

**papermate** · #1 11-10-2011, 07:41 PM

Amazed by Gary's design of this plane and inspired by Rob's beautiful work on his own thread, I attempt to build it at my favourite scale. I started with the floats first to see if it is workable. Should it fail on a satisfactory level, I might consider giving up the idea at all. Anyway, it seems okay so far and I'll continue with the build.

Papermate

**papermodelfan** · #2 11-10-2011, 10:30 PM

Great start, Papermate and terrific fine work with Mercury's floats. Will follow with interest.

**GaryPilsworth** · #3 11-11-2011, 12:10 AM

OMG

You must be a micro-surgen in the real world
this is gonna be interesting

**papermate** · #4 11-11-2011, 02:57 AM

Thank you Rob and Gary. I'm not a micro surgeon but just obsessed with building models at mini/micro scales. Just finished with a little progress and here are the pics.

Papermate

**papermate** · #5 11-16-2011, 06:59 AM

Now that the Scharnhorst is finished, I can now come back to this challenging build. Here are some updates on the fuselage and wings. Now moving on to the engines.

Papermate

**papermate** · #6 11-16-2011, 08:05 PM

Two of the engines done. Just in case you're interested, the spinnable prop is made in the following procedures.

1. Laminate the engine front which is cut off from the template for easy fitting. Then pierce a hole in the middle when the lamination is dry.
2. Roll a short strip of paper to form a tube as the shaft-holder. Make sure it is not too long nor too thick.
3. Use a wire as the shaft (0.2mm in my case) and get a tiny rolled up papertube 1mm long or less to wind around the shaft. Dip in CA and glue it to the nose cone.
4. When dry, insert the prop blade at the other end of the shaft and ensure that it is glued securely to the nose cone.
5. Now get the laminated engine front and use a pin larger than the 0.2mm wire as a guide and glue the shaft-holder to the engine front.
6. Insert the prop unit (blade and shaft ready) through the laminated engine front and shaft-holder unit. Test to see if the prop can spin freely.
7. Final step, make a stopper of 1mm long from a rolled up paper tube and carefully glue it to the end of the shaft. This is to ensure that the prop unit will not fall out subsequently. I use CA very sparingly. Hold the prop unit with nose cone up and apply CA to the end of the stopper. By doing this, you will ensure that CA glue will not go the top because of gravity. And the shaft's free movement will not be interfered.

Papermate

**richkat** · #7 11-16-2011, 08:10 PM

Man your crazy....makes my eyes and fingers hurt just looking at them tiny parts!...Rich

**papermodelfan** · #8 11-16-2011, 09:03 PM

Bravo! never occurred to me to make the props turn! Egads. And that is wonderful and CLEAN work with the unforgiving silver paper. Hats off!

**dnp** · #9 11-16-2011, 09:09 PM

Wow...at first it was difficult to get a sense of scale. That is tiny. Looks great.

**papermate** · #10 11-16-2011, 11:14 PM

Thanks guys. It's just a matter of getting used to it if you're really interested in building mini/micro models.

Papermate