Hi there people,
I'm introducing myself here by saying that paper models are something I've not built before. I feel like I have hooves instead of hands, and I think a lot of this has to do with the material and scale. So I'm amazed at the work which is shown here.
Paper models were a revelation to me when I first came across some pirate sites a few years back. I really had no idea such things existed. I grew up building plastic models and later moved on to some RC modeling.
Right now I'm attempting to build Bruno's Ilyusin IL-18. Which will be more of a composite construction using the paper model as the primary patterns.
Until I joined up I had been experimenting with cardboard patterns of ships filled with expanding foam and then filled with lite plaster and sanded before being covered in paper, and then sanded and painted and filled and painted again until a smooth hull was created. This isn't the sort of process normally used to create a static paper model. It's intended to create a useable hull which is water proof and smooth like a fiberglass/epoxy hull.
So far I'm impressed with the results and have the hulls of several ships partially framed up. It was never really my intention to make models, but rather to create some experimental hulls out of inexpensive materials which have many attractive qualities such as cost and ease of working with.
The success of this experiment is what brought me to the forum. I don't know that I will be displaying paper works of art, as others do, but at least the primary building materials will be paper.
None of this is of course anything new. Many paper ship modelers have been doing essentially the same thing for quite a while, but still it is amazing what you can create out of old pizza boxes, a can of expanding foam, some plaster, newspapers and waterproof glue.
I'm introducing myself here by saying that paper models are something I've not built before. I feel like I have hooves instead of hands, and I think a lot of this has to do with the material and scale. So I'm amazed at the work which is shown here.
Paper models were a revelation to me when I first came across some pirate sites a few years back. I really had no idea such things existed. I grew up building plastic models and later moved on to some RC modeling.
Right now I'm attempting to build Bruno's Ilyusin IL-18. Which will be more of a composite construction using the paper model as the primary patterns.
Until I joined up I had been experimenting with cardboard patterns of ships filled with expanding foam and then filled with lite plaster and sanded before being covered in paper, and then sanded and painted and filled and painted again until a smooth hull was created. This isn't the sort of process normally used to create a static paper model. It's intended to create a useable hull which is water proof and smooth like a fiberglass/epoxy hull.
So far I'm impressed with the results and have the hulls of several ships partially framed up. It was never really my intention to make models, but rather to create some experimental hulls out of inexpensive materials which have many attractive qualities such as cost and ease of working with.
The success of this experiment is what brought me to the forum. I don't know that I will be displaying paper works of art, as others do, but at least the primary building materials will be paper.
None of this is of course anything new. Many paper ship modelers have been doing essentially the same thing for quite a while, but still it is amazing what you can create out of old pizza boxes, a can of expanding foam, some plaster, newspapers and waterproof glue.
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