Akagi Flight Deck and Zero Fighter

Hi all,



While I was having lunch and reading my facebook feed, I came across the following from our friends over at http://ift.tt/1M19SAv



They have released their Akagi flight deck kit which was a 3000 yen paper model for free.



You can get the kit here http://ift.tt/1E6urJ8





I am downloading my copy right now



Rick

"Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle?”

Gang,



Some pix of my latest modeling opus: a 1/48 version of the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle that carried Alan Shepard into suborbital space on May 5, 1961.



The booster and spacecraft are the Card In Space model by Michael Urban. A fellow modeler graciously sent me plastic and resin parts for the red launch escape tower, which is better detailed than I could have scratchbuilt.



(Note: I've since realigned the wayward antenna on the striped area -- in case anyone noticed! :))



:cool: Les (The Voice of Authority -- VoiceofAuthority.net - The Voice Stylings of Les Dorr, Jr.)

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cearadactylus atrox

i'm really cracking out the pterosaur builds. they are comparatively easier and quicker to build then the dinosaurs, yet still have appealing looks in my opinion.

this particular pterosaur is ceradactylus atroc. cearadactylus was a midsized pterosaur with a wingspan of about 5.5 meters or 16 feet. it's elongated jaws and precumbant teeth might of made it suitable for capturing and swallowing anything that can fit into it's mouth. despite what this creture would acctually look like, at this scale, the paper model version is very small. the overall body length is just over 2 1/2 inches and a wingspan of 5 inches. its body is smaller then my pinky. it makes my tropeognathus ( which was an overall larger creature) look huge









all my pterosaurs thus far. hatzegopteryx, tropeognathus, and cearadactylus

Hi

Im from the United Kingdom and lookfoward to modelling buses!

Happy Birthday adder

Dear Adder:

May you just be able to make paper models all day long on your birthday today.

Enjoy,

Miles

Painting - the never ending quest

Hello All



First let me state that I am new into the hobby and thanks to all of you that have posted such great information. I have been reading and rereading over the past month the tips and techniques section. At the same time I've been experimenting with gluing, folding etc.

But now painting. I have read everything I can and now I want to know if I understand, so please be patient, hold my hand and...

The kit that I will be building I will be adjusting/modifing which then negates the printed colour. So, I print, then spray or brush a "sealer" of some description (and there appears to be many), cut, score, bend, fold, glue, build - and then apply light layers and perhaps many applications of the colour required. My worry of course is that at some point the paper will warp or do whatever evil hides in the paper. Am I on the right track? Suggestions/recommendations for a sealer that will accept paint.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.:)

Humvee papercraft RC bodyshell

Hi all, just sharing a few photos of my build











The small humvee in the pic is a 1/48 scale paper model (free download at my site). I enlarged it to be used as a rc bodyshell on my heavily chopped up Tamiya TL01rc chassis. the paper body shell was printed on A3 size vellum and reinforced with 4mm sintra board for added stiffness