Digital Navy P-26A Peashooter

[smp]

Thanks for the kind words Don.
sp

[Mike1158]

'Tis a fine airframe and no mistake.

[smithdr]

That's a beaut, SP! Great job for a new person at paper. And the P-26 has hard contours etc.



Well done...Dan

[smp]

Thanks y'all. I am still trying to decide how best to do the rigging. I want something that does not sag, yet the paper structure can't stand much tension. Still pulling high gees on the learning curve.
sp

[smp]

The P-26A is finished, and so am I. I'm sounding Retreat and declaring victory.
I wanted to find out about round fuselages and I found out more than I bargained for, but thanks to some helpful tips from y'all, I think my next rounded fuselage will show fewer mistakes than this one does.







For rigging I used thread from an old Monogram SE.5a kit and colored it silver for the rigging and black for the radio antenna using Sharpie markers. I thought, "It's only paper, a sewing needle will be all I need." Yeah right. Get a few coats of Krylon on it and paper gets tough. And that structural cardboard on the landing gear legs needed to be drilled.






I found another use for Aleene's Tacky Glue. It makes superior glue blob turnbuckles. It is too thick to bead up in a ball on the rigging line like Elmer's. In this scale I should have used twisted wire anchor loops and little bits of 0.4 mm micro tubing and 2 lb test mono. but the stress of heat tightening the mono I thought would be too much, so I went with the thread and glue blob turnbuckles. They will be just right in smaller scales of plastic. A final coat of Future, (Pledge these days Stateside), Gave it a better gloss than the Krylon did.







All that remains is to see if my P-26A loving buddy likes it. He is highly opinionated and reminds me of Yosemite Sam with R/C transmitters rather than guns. It's going to be entertaining whichever way it goes.






Thanks again for all the kind words, encouragement and good advice.
sp

[cafe]

It's a very beautiful Peashooter!

[rockpaperscissor]

That came out very nice. Looks like you've been building paper models for years. Nice job.

[dhanners]

Sure looks like a Peashooter. Great job!

Re: your comment about sanding the edges of formers. Sandpaper may well be too coarse. Visit the nail care section of your local drug store (or even Walmart) and look through their assortment of emery boards and buffing sticks. Some of the buffers have extremely fine grit.

I find that if a former isn't fitting properly -- but is very close -- a few swipes with an emery board and the buffing boards does the trick.

[Don Boose]

That rigging came out perfectly!

The final model is terrific. I eagerly look forward to your next project.

Don (Another believer in emery boards for filing formers.)

[smp]

Thanks for all the compliments guys, much appreciated.



I will make a pass down the nail care isle next run to Walmart and pick up a selection of emery boards. Thanks for the tips.


sp