Mini Piper J3

[altbob]

I'm sure some of you will recognize the mini J3 Cub from the Fiddler's Green free "business card" series. Well, this is my first attempt at a paper model this small and intricate:



Sorry it is a little out of focus! I'm using all the parts from the business card, but modifying slightly. That is a bit of wood toothpick for the engine, and the struts and landing gear parts were glued to super thin polystyrene sheet because I didn't think they would work in paper.

More photos coming if there is interest.

[Tim Crowe]

You've done a great job.

Feel free to post more pictures

Tim

[Leif Ohlsson]

Love the Cub, in any scale! Your's is lovely. - L.

[altomentis]

My brother-in-law works at Cubcrafters in Yakima, WA.

[abbycat]

Great job!

[altbob]

Thanks guys! I have a real soft spot for the J3 - hard to image a list of the top 5 most influential civil aircraft of all time without this one being on the list!

Here is the finished piece, with a prop that I carved from a bit of balsa:



The spinner is made from a bit of green putty painted silver. The business card didn't have a spinner and the paper prop would have been too 2-dimensional for my liking. My only regret is that I didn't think ahead to make the prop free spinning, but I would have had to so the engine differently to pull that off - the wood toothpick is too in the way now for that, so I just glued the prop on.

Here's the J3 in my collection with some other civil aircraft in the background:

[Vermin_King]

Thanks for the additional photos. I don't think I had a true picture of the scale until I saw how big the toothpick engine is. Very nice work

[altbob]

Thanks, are we supposed to download and incorporate that 2" square cube I keep seeing in people's posts?

[Vermin_King]

You can do that. A scale cube allows the viewers to get a better idea of the size.

Many times modelers will put a coin or bottle cap in the picture to give an idea of scale. Jan always seems to have one photo with his model on the back of his hand.

Something in the picture to give a better viewpoint of scale is sometimes helpful. It doesn't need to be a cube. Even a picture on your cutting mat, with its grid lines works.

But it really isn't necessary if you don't feel like doing it.

[Wad Cutter]

Outstanding job on an old classic that will never go out of style. You did a much better job then I did on the two I build. Very nice model. Love your work. wc