Oddball Martin P4M1 Mercator in 1/100 scale

[gomidefilho]

Hello friends!

Is my last build, a Martin P4M Mercator from Aaron Murphy, is a beta build soon sale in ecardmodels.com













Size comparation with FJ-1 in same scale...



And in my display in U.S. Navy section...



Regards my friends!

[Jan Kytop]

Good and impressive model but you have to build the horizontal tail with an important dihedral.

[buffalowings]

Jan appears to be correct, the horizontal tailplane is supposed to have be very exaggerated in terms of dihedral.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._in_flight.jpg

http://www.vectorsite.net/avp2v_14.png

[murphyaa]

I know I designed the tail anhedral in. did I put the glue tabs on the wrong side? Other than that, any other issues?

[gomidefilho]

I not know about dihedral, the wings is a little dihedral in external area, I fix in my model but Aaron fix this issue in release

[Alcides]

Hi Pericles. Nice work as always. The problem with the dihedral is the king of one which are easily solved with the use of formers but Aaron don't like use them so this can happens.

[murphyaa]

It can also be handled by designing the part right. I'll have to do a test build and see what went wrong.
Edit: I took a close look, and discovered that I but the glue tabs on the wrong side. Essentially, if you follow my standard practice and put the glue tabs on the bottom, the tail planes are on upside down.

[Don Boose]

Fine model, Pericles. I always like to see the discussion between designer and builder. We get some good insights that way.

I like U.S. and British aircraft of the early jet age. Your Mercator looks good next to your straight-wing Fury.

Don

[Wyvern]

An excellent build as always, Pericles!

Wyvern

[gomidefilho]

Thank's my friends! Is a big and impressive plane... Great addition for all US Navy collection...