Glueing or Securing galvenized wire

The GPS Block IIR satellite that I'm building has two wire antenna structures. In this picture you can see them on thin arms that protrude above and below the satellite bus or body. To me they look like wire fir trees. Anyhow the model has them built of strips of paper glued onto stacks of paper tubes. I'm foreseeing problems building that at my skill level and it staying nice looking in the long-term, so I'm considering using wire instead.

I've chosen a suitable gauge of galvanized steel wire and plan on having lengths bent at 90 degrees to make two "probes" that I'll attach onto a central post, probably also wire. What do you think would be the best way to secure them? CA glue? Soldering? Honestly, I'm not much better at soldering, so I'm hoping there's something else you can recommend.

FJ-4B Fury Murph's Model in 1/100 scale (beta)

At this time is a classical and definitive member of F-86/FJ family the FJ-4B Fury, a US Navy fighter-bomber of 1950's and early of 60's. Aaron design two versions a Drone Director and USMC machine I customized the second armed with two AGM-12 Bullpup. Is a bit difficult model because a particular cross section of fuses and need of formers, but the textures is beautiful and model show a nice feature of wing folded. The original scale is 1/36, but I reduced to 1/100





































Size comparation:

Am I really about to publish another What Software post?

Yes, yes I am.

I've read a dozen or so pages of posts and watch a few hours of youtube videos and I'm afraid I'm not any closer to slogging my way into design. besides, many posts are now several years old and ... things could have changed.

I've developed 3d models, applied textures and collision maps in Blender and Unity (for Kerbal Space Program). So I know enough to get in over my head. But I've also discovered - what I have since read about - that Blender's UV Unwrapping doesn't (at least how I did it) protect the proportions of the 3d object such that it can be reassembled later.

That leads me back to square one. I'm not going to be publishing dozens of models. So I'm not willing to sink $$$ into software or months learning those products. I don't mind learning new software, but I don't want to start from scratch with lots of wrong turns and wasted time (I did linguistics in college - but I paid a professor to help me through that haha).

What do I need to design a model from scratch? Is the following combination still the easiest path; Pepakura viewer + PDO Exporter + Illustrator/Photoshop? Do I build it in Pepa, color it in photoshop, then reopen it in pepa to print to PDF? Or do I export it from Photoshop into Word or Publisher and print to PDF from there?

I guess what I'd really like to know is, Is there a step by step tutorial for designing a simple model (think cube with cylinder cones, truncated cones etc)? Then designing a more advanced model (curves and etc)?

AXM STS-134 Shuttle Rollout

I know, I know, I have the Educraft MLP and Tower to build, but I don't have the time or the space to finish that right now, so I thought I'd replace my aging STS-127 stack with a new model, since I haven't built an AMX shuttle in years. I've got the shuttle down, with the rest of the stack shortly. Also, apologies for the messy workspace. I will be adding extra details here and there, so stay tuned. :)

Japanese Shinkai Sansha Shinto Shrine Paper Model

I built the Shinkai Sansha Shinto Shrine paper model, offered by Prefecture Of Suita website.
The complete model occupies only two sheets of paper, more one for instructions and measures
(printed in A4 format) 10cms high, 10 cm wide and 8 cm long, without considering the base.
I had done a post about this model at blog, with a little of the history of the temple and the
link to see it is just below the end of this post. There you will also find the link to download and
build your own shrine.





Link: Shinkai.Sansha.Shinto.Shrine.Paper.Model.by.Prefec ture.Of.Suita

Indonesian P-51 recolor--in download section

Soon to be in the download section:
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Legal or not?

I do not know if this is in the right spot. If not, please relocate it to another part of this forum:

On PaperCraftSquare | Free Papercrafts, Paper Models, Paper Toys and Origami Download I found some very neatly recoloured models of the P-51D Mustang. This design was originally a papermodel by Dr. Emil Zarkov, but it was repainted by Iulian Fratelanutela.
I tried to contact Dr. Zarkov on behalf of this via a Pm on papermodelers.com, but I have yet to receive a reply.
Can anybody able tell me if Dr. Zarkov has authorized this or not?
I am something of a stickler for copyright and I want to build one or more of these models some day, together with a building report. - But not if this kit is pirated!

Many thanks already now,
Martin

Happy Birthday Christine U

Dear Christine U:
May you have a good birthday today and just make paper models all day long.
Enjoy,
Miles

Happy Birthday SCEtoAUX

Dear SCEtoAUX:
Happy birthday today and may you just be able to make paper models all day long.
Enjoy,
Miles

OCO-2 Paper Model

I just finished designing my 2nd model, the OCO-2 or Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2.

OCO-2 is NASA’s first dedicated Earth remote sensing satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide from Space. OCO-2 will be collecting space-based global measurements of atmospheric CO2 with the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize sources and sinks on regional scales.

This will enhance our understanding for improving predictions of future atmospheric CO2 increases and its impact on Earth's climate.

OCO-2 was launched on July 2, 2014.

I placed this in the downloads section today, i hope it will be available for all
to download.

Tell me what you think, I welcome any comments or suggestions

Glenn

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Gun owners of the world - unite! Help needed :)

Dear Gents.

Paper modeling is not my only hobby - I am also a gun-nut boy, and gun owner of course. Here's one of my precious toys:

Gorgeuos Czech vz.52. As you can see, she is a little upgraded: original plastic grips are replaced with walnut CNC grips (from Czech Republic), and internal lockin rollers (not visible) - with Harrington hardened ones.
Now, I am looking for two magazine extended floor plates:

CZ 52 Pistol Extended Magazine Floor Plate Made in The USA | eBay
Unfortunately, the seller does not ship to my location (Poland).

So, my question is: is here any trusted person with paypal account, who could help me to get these parts?
The shipping is free in US, so I send by PayPal total of 35USD (2xmagazine floorplates+USPS First-Class Mail® International Large Envelope) and my shipping address.
All help will be appreciated :)

FG Contact Info

Does anyone know how to contact Fiddlers Green? I searched the site and could find a contact link. I was trying to renew and having trouble and wanted to contact them.

NSU Kettenkaftrad (Sd.Kfz.2) 1:25

Hello!

Some pictures of one of my last projects. Build report you can find here:

10. KBW - NSU Kettenkaftrad (Sd.Kfz.2) 1:25 - Bauberichte - Kartonbau.de - Alles rund um Papiermodelle, Kartonmodellbau und Bastelbogen

Kind regards
Josef

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Lifes a Beech

Ok both myself and parents have been flying as commercial passengers since we could walk.Me between uk and singapore in my youth and between uk and new zealand nowadys.She spent hundreds of hours flying between uk and south africa and more recently between new zealand and south africa.We thought we had experienced most things.Well today she flew domestic from home to wellington new zealand in the smallest plane she has ever travelled on
It was-and its a new one to me,a Beech 1900.I upset her telling her they wound up the elastic bands for take off and just at that moment the pilot dropped me right in it by turning props by hand as part of pre flight.My partner was not amused but luckily the pilot did not speak afrikaans.
Ok so now i have some serious grovelling to do so i have two questions;
1.is there any models out there free or otherwise of this aircraft/
2.is their anyone out there who would do me a recolour into correct scheme if i can get a model
the recolour need not be too precise as long as its a good representative of this aircraft in air new zealand colours
i will do searches and provide scheme details
hoping someone can help to get me back in her good books on her return
:)

C47b usaaf

Hello everyone, nearly 4 months ago I finished my repainted USAAF C-47B in the ratio of 1 to 48th, and here are photos of building and finished model. I must say it was hard work.