Any of you guys try a paper model?

Thanks!I appreciate it!

Real G

A quick question to the paper modeling community - why scales like 1/33?

I've occasionally wondered about the 1/33 'standard' as well.

The good news is that since there are some vac canopies available for those 1/33 paper card models, some are indeed adaptable to our plastic 1/32 kits without much difficulty.

It's a potential resource a lot of plastic builders don't know about.

Hey:

         Gregbale! This is just some info for you. Plastic kit parts in near scales work great for Paper Models. I discovered this quite by accident. Two of my ships didn't quite measure up to 1.400 after being built. They were a wee bit large. Well.A sheet of Generic 1/350 rails stairs and ladders worked great!

      I have been cheating on some by using Faller and Kibri parts on the ships with cranes.It looks like it was made for it.The scales? Why 1/87 and 1/160 for the parts!

Okay, they were really not paper models but does anyone remember the old car kits with wood and a lot of die-cut card stock?  They also had plastic wheels/tires and steering wheels.

Don;

 I never mentioned them. Why? I didn't think you were old enough to remember them!

My dad told me about the kits that came with blocks that you had to carve to shape.Came in   handy when it came time to carve my Pinewood Derby car in '74! it came out nice painted it silver with airplane decals.It lost a wheel in the race lol!

I remember seeing 747 and F-4 Phantom kits which had blocks of wood for the main components and metal detail parts.  IIRC the profiles were pre-cut, but they included cardstock templates to DIY the final contours.  The box art for the kits had the models in finished wood and polished metal.

Well beyond my skillset in 4th grade!  Probably beyond most consumers today too.

Real G

I remember seeing 747 and F-4 Phantom kits which had blocks of wood for the main components and metal detail parts.  IIRC the profiles were pre-cut, but they included cardstock templates to DIY the final contours.  The box art for the kits had the models in finished wood and polished metal.

Well beyond my skillset in 4th grade!  Probably beyond most consumers today too.

 Model airplanes were an almost universal hobby by boys during and for quite a few years after the war.

 

I was getting model kits for presents from relatives by second grade.  I got the hang of the solid wood models within a year, but it took another year before I got the hang of the stick and tissue flying kits.