Will That Be Paper or Plastic?

AHA !

   You are dead on ." Paper" models,for the most part are pre-colored and so on .This helps with cost .Schreiber and Wilhemshaven make good kits and the Polish companies do to .You do have to know this though .There's more of them out there than plastic !

I don't know about armor at all . so I will say this much . My stash of " Paper " models is probably worth a couple of hundred dollars ( I've been accumulating them for 25  years .) My plastic stash is worth thousands in kits and materials . 50 years worth . And the cost of tools etc.

I won't be able to build plastic models in a nursing home , sooooo. That day may come and I am ready  ! I will not die from Boredom !     T.B.

They have become very good.  If they were the same scale as plastic kits Would couldn't pick them out from plastic kits.

Paper is the "new plastic". Most paper kits can be scaled up or down with Foxit. I have tons of plastic, but have changed to paper for costs. Plastic has finally become too stinking expensive and paper offers so many more subjects. So come on over to the paper side.

AT6

................... come on over to the paper side.

A shame Darth Vader never said that to Luke Skywalker in "The Empire Strikes Back"......................

Hey !AT6 !

You don't have to convince me . What I like about paper over plastic is the civil aircraft section is much larger in the genre      Tanker - Builder      P.S. They have lots more Tankers too !

The really sweet thing about paper is that so many of them are free because of generous designers.

I recently began building paper ship models and have been quite thrilled.  One comment above referred to the overall cost. Not only do I get a large-scaled ship model kit for less that the cost of a good 1/700 scale plastic ship, but I can also simply duplicate the kit on my scanner and printer and build as many as I like in whatever scale I like.  A high-quality kit such as the HMV kits, which cost on average about $55.00 for a 1/200 or 1/250 scale battleship (compared with over $300.00 for a similarly scaled plastic kit can easily be down-scaled to 1/350 scale or even smaller, depending on my preferences. I love this option!

I just bought a set of 20 pastels in various shades of gray for $3.00.  This will last for many, many models with different shades being available or easily mixed for the various navies. Consider that a single bottle of enamel or acrylic model paint now costs over $3.00, the overall economy of paper over plastic is obvious.

Paper kits offer another advantage for those of us living with family members such as a wife and kids . . . there are no noxious odors from the cements or paints as with plastic, nor do paper kits take up as much room for construction. I use a TV tray with a cutting matt affixed to the top on which to cut and shape each part. I do it in front of the television surrounded by my family. Adding this dimension to my ship building has been fantastic!

Bill Morrison

Tankerbuilder

You don't have to convince me . What I like about paper over plastic is the civil aircraft section is much !

Yup paper is an interesting medium to model in