Paper models

[Corinthian]

I haven't tried doing paper models before* and the paper kits I've seen on the web are astounding. This site has quite a number of cool paper models that can be downloaded for free. I already downloaded the X-Men X-jet model and will do it at the office when I'm bored

 

Anyone here has made paper models before?

 

 

* - back when I was a kid, I recall building several warships, aircraft and a model bike using paper, tape, and paint. But these aren't like paper models found on the net. Just folded, curved, taped, glued them to look like ships etc.

[DB]

I've got one or two items from tourist shops outside cathedrals, and I got about half way through Reims cathedral before I lost the will to live...

 

It's safely stored, though, and hasn't got too dusty, so I guess I'll get back to it one day.

 

Free Motorcycles and animals from Yamaha, no less: http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/enter...raft/index.html

 

There's lots of cool stuff, and some of it is free.

 

David

[Mk 1]

Terrain models for micro scale wargaming.

 

Buildings, walls/fences, bridge, roads, railroads, rail cars, and locomotives are all paper models. Tanks on the flatcars are more traditional cast pewter miniatures.

 

Company is Paper Terrain: http://www.paperterrain.com/

 

Never seen it in person. But I have seen other paper buildings in this scale, and they can come out very nicely. Certainly the photos these guys have done look good.

 

-Mark 1

[Marek Tucan]

Our youth magasine publishes since 1990s series of "Minibox" paper models in H0 train modelling size, with occassional stints to N scale. Basically just paper boxes, but OTOH some were pretty complicated. Like Caterpillar D9 dozer (before it earned its fame;)).

 

Now have two sets of 1/72 paper WWII tanks and looking for time to build them.

[DemolitionMan]

For those Armor freaks on here, a printable model of the "Land Ironclad" as imagined by H.G. Wells in a short story from 1903: http://www.currell.net/models/ironclad.htm

[Jacques]

Yes, the paper model industry is very low key, but it seems to cover everything. I see a lot of the real space stuff in paper at contests, and very nicely done. Most die-hard paper modellers add to the base paper kit, (usually small detail stuff or hoses, rigging etc...) but it can be quite a challenge.

 

And there is a lot of free downloads on the internet if you go looking for things like "free paper models" or "paper kits". I have about 5 gigs of kits I downloaded from 1/35 Modern German Armor to unscaled Manga starships to 1/64 modern construction equipment. Oh, and even some of the fancy armor designs from Godzilla movies.

 

Of course, I have only built one 1/64 scale excavator. But if the world of Styrene fails, I have a back-up!

[Fritz]

I remember now, when I was a kid in commie at the time Bulgaria, paper models of spaceships were very popular. I had some, the only failure of the designs were that special shapes - and some stuff was REALLY complex - like say domes, which were split into triangular slices, had these tiny extensions used to glue them together. These extensions were often too narrow and when soaked with a tad more glue than supposed they just crumbled.

[PCallahan]

Our youth magasine publishes since 1990s series of "Minibox" paper models in H0 train modelling size, with occassional stints to N scale. Basically just paper boxes, but OTOH some were pretty complicated. Like Caterpillar D9 dozer (before it earned its fame;)).

 

Now have two sets of 1/72 paper WWII tanks and looking for time to build them.

 

Mini box also did a large series of 1/300th scale buildings, including houses, shops, etc. I use them extensively for microarmor wargaming. Good stuff!

[Charles King]

You wanna see excellent paper models, especially military models? see this forum and go to the 'Card Model' forum:

 

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/forumindex.php

[Bearded-Dragon]

If you're interested in spaceship paper models, this has links to many other pages with quite a few models.

 

http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~hamanaga/ThumbLink/Thumb45.html page

 

One thing you might like to consider is that if you utilise the scaling facility on most printer drivers on your PC, you can rescale these models to any side. So if you find a model in say, 1/100 scale and want to convert it to say, 1/300 you can simply make it one third the size on the printer!

[Guest JamesG123]

I D/Led and printed a model of a Ducati "888" superbike years ago. Also built it at work and it still sits in my wife's cube there (unless she crushed it by accident or while mad at me).

Edited January 11, 2008 by JamesG123