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Paper MadCat @ office

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Paper MadCat @ office
Posted by SteelSnail on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 2:22 PM

Ok, so this might belong to the odd and ends but anyways...

Some coworkers (who are not scale modelers) started to build paper models in between workloads and as they know I build models invited me to join. I wasn't very enthusiastic about it until I saw the instructions for a paper MadCat (from BattleTech universe)... I have a vynil one without the instructions and I thought this will be good practice. So here it is:

It took me about 8 hours divided into three afternoons and while my coworkers were impressed I'm not really satisfied. While it's faster and cheaper plastic/resin offer much more possibilities, depth and less blockiness lol.

Oh, and die paper Rabbids, die!

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Posted by SLW 45 on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:13 PM

Looks good in pic

Can I ask where you found instructions

                 

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:27 PM

Bro thats awesome, i used some similar instructions to build a CGI model of a warhammer dreadnaught, havent finished it yet but ill get there one day.

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Posted by Ti4019 on Thursday, July 8, 2010 8:02 AM

nice download!

i was working with some full size pepakura costumes a while back, and we had a guy make the tank fromTRON in paper transferred to styrene.

i have a download of an ATST that i havent built yet

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Posted by Guney on Friday, July 9, 2010 5:13 PM

Good work....Looking great.....Smile

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Posted by OctaneOrange on Monday, July 12, 2010 12:52 AM

i know what you mean about the limitations of paper, i've got a couple on my workbench, one 'Road warrior' xb falcon and the other a SW jawa sandcrawler. while and ok way to model, most of the panels don't stay straight (may have been better with stiffer/thicker paper) and there are gaps caused by the limitations of the material that leave unsightly white edges. i'll post pics if i ever finish them, but they aren't looking too hot atm.

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Posted by SteelSnail on Monday, July 12, 2010 1:21 PM

Thanks for the comments Smile

Here's the download:

http://files.nebulastation.net/madcat_pdf_01.pdf

Oh, that tank from Tron should look nice.

A coworker is making something from the Mario bros universe (not sure what it is) but sair he tried with a stiffer thicker paper but that it tends to break instead of bending. So he went back to regular paper. I guess it's a matter of trying different types.

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