Hello ladies and gentlemen, a couple of weeks ago I started a new project, being a Victorian era Spanish battleship called the Infanta Maria Teresa.
The paper-and-cardboard model was designed by a spanish gentleman called Fernando Perez Yuste, aka Heinkel, or on an international papermodelers forum "heinkel111".
This isn't the first paper model I make of course, however it is the first paper model I make using a new weapon in my arsenal. Usually, when I buy a paperkit I also try to find a lasercut set for it, being the frames or details, whatever makes life easier. The Heinkel Models however are only available as digital purchase, there is no physical kit or book availabe. In other words, you pay for the use of a PDF file that you have to print yourself... or go to a copycenter of course if you don't have your own printer. Great system, that means that you screw up as many times as needed to reach perfection, you can always re-print the parts... downside is that there are no lasercut sets available (to my knowledge).
Enter my new weapon ...
Now for the kit :
Cutting all the frames was done in less then an hour with a precision I could never achieve with a scalpel.
Cutting out the printed parts was of course done the more traditional oldfashioned way.
The railings for the gangways are lasercut again, from cereal packaging. And painted off white.
Four fire reels, the eifeltower-shaped stands are again lasercut.
(the ruler is metric)
All parts for the capstan are again hand cut.
And the next step (final thing I did today) was the first two cranes for the manipulation of the anchors.
And this is where I ended today :
It is always nice to have people comment on your build, however it gives an extra dimension when the designer of the kit himself comments :
To be continued...