1:250 Scale Paper Model: Fishing Boat "Wuppertal"

[dr_gn]

perdu said:

Love this even more now

That stand is already giving it 'gravitas'

I saw the paper ships at Telford, wish I'd had the confidence to take one home

"You see! YOU don't have to use smelly plastic glue and paint to make models"

She hates my coming back to plastic models

The ones at Telford were the same manufacturer as this one - in fact there was one of these fishing boats built up on the bench. They all looked incredible.

[perdu]

dr_gn said:

perdu said:

Love this even more now

That stand is already giving it 'gravitas'

I saw the paper ships at Telford, wish I'd had the confidence to take one home

"You see! YOU don't have to use smelly plastic glue and paint to make models"

She hates my coming back to plastic models

The ones at Telford were the same manufacturer as this one - in fact there was one of these fishing boats built up on the bench. They all looked incredible.

They certainly did, that dry dock diorama was very impressive especially



paper? wow

sorry for the hijack doc, I can delete if you like...
And back at your boat I did think it was going to be one of those

excellent stuff

[dr_gn]

No, leave the pics - the dry dock was/is incredible.

I completed the lifeboats yestarday:



and made a couple more of the rear deck ventilators:



And the breakwater thing on the fore deck which is laser-cut card:

[perdu]

Coming more to life by the minute

Stunning use of paper

have a for your perseverence

Do you think this diversion will be a large part of your hobbying any time?

It has a certain "je-ne-sais-quoi" about it doesn't it

[dr_gn]

perdu said:

Coming more to life by the minute

Stunning use of paper

have a for your perseverence

Do you think this diversion will be a large part of your hobbying any time?

It has a certain "je-ne-sais-quoi" about it doesn't it

Yeah, I'll be building more of these. You have to be precise, but in a different way to plastic; the odd bodge doesn't seem to detract so much becasue "it's made of paper FFS!".

The Tornado is a pain in the arse, I'm currently stripping the wheel bays for the second time due to a screw up on my part.

I also opened the Airfix Tiger Moth last night and had my worst fears confirmed regarding the blatantly incorrect nose (see post #14):

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topi...

So that's another "quick build" out of the window (and the last Airfix kit I'll ever buy).

I find myself looking forward to cutting bits of paper out more than pratting about with plastic at the moment...

[Red Firecracker]

I'll just leave this here;

http://www.ukpapermodels.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?...

(yes, that's a link to a 7 foot long paper model of a container ship!)

[perdu]

Doh he hasnt even made his own propellers



but really wow

what an enterprise to undertake, I'll be dipping back into there for quite a while I suspects

[blinkythefish]

I've been watching this thread and looking forward to the updates. This is the first time I'd seen paper modelling to this level and I think I am quite keen to give it a go, so I finally decided to hit buy on this:

http://www.kartonmodellbau.de/epages/63481486.sf/e...

I'll see how it goes and may start a progress thread(to avoid hijacking this one).

[rhinochopig]

Amazing what you can do with paper.

Sorry to be a pedant but it's fo'c'sle - pronounced folksel.

[dr_gn]

rhinochopig said:

Amazing what you can do with paper.

Sorry to be a pedant but it's fo'c'sle - pronounced folksel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecastle

Guess there's more ways than one to skinnacat?

[rhinochopig]

dr_gn said:

rhinochopig said:

Amazing what you can do with paper.

Sorry to be a pedant but it's fo'c'sle - pronounced folksel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecastle

Guess there's more ways than one to skinnacat?

My spelling is simply a abbreviation of forecastle - as you say. I posted more to point out the pronunciation.

[dr_gn]

rhinochopig said:

dr_gn said:

rhinochopig said:

Amazing what you can do with paper.

Sorry to be a pedant but it's fo'c'sle - pronounced folksel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecastle

Guess there's more ways than one to skinnacat?

My spelling is simply a abbreviation of forecastle - as you say. I posted more to point out the pronunciation.

Ah, I thought from your pedant comment that you meant the term "Forecastle" was wrong.

[dr_gn]

Still fiddling about with the wheel, ventilators, chimneys and bollards on the rear deck:

[dr_gn]

Lifeboat davits assembled and secured to the deck tonight. Quite a fiddly job even consdering the entire model is fiddly:

[perdu]

I think a justifiable "Bleeding hell that is fiddly!" is called for here

But it is 'becoming' very nicely now doc

There's quiet murmers of appreciation here in Sutton C for this

[dr_gn]

Thanks Perdu. I must admit that it troubles me when I see the errors I've made during assembly, and the knock-on effects. I keep forcing myself to continue becasue there are bound to be other lessons to learn further on in the build. I'd rather make all the errors on this one, and at least the next one will be better. Don't get me wrong, at a glance it's fine, but photographs magnify errors...

[perdu]

You really shouldn't beat yourself up about that

This is a complete new field for you, those guys who specialise in the paper (and board) modelling game have almost all been at it since the Romans dug the sewers

And some Yarkshiremen lived under a cardboard box in a hole in the road

Any learning curve can be slippery, truly where you are now is infinitely better than I was years ago when I built card models for my lad's layout

So for your model I'll paraphrase the Admiral

"I see no slips"

[dr_gn]

So I spent an hour or so today making the compass binnacle; 8 pieces:



And here it is in place on the wheelhouse:

[fulgurex]

This is really impressive?

Last April I went to Dortmund to Intermodellbau which is a huge exhibition of models: planes; boats; trains; military; construction etc

There was a major section on card modelling and the standard and complexity was staggering. I looked at the kits but I chickened out because of the intricate and fiddly bits. Your thread has given me the encouragement to have a go.

[dr_gn]

Thanks - that's a show I'd love to go to one day.

I'd dismissed paper models as unrefined, until I saw some at a ship museum; I couldn't tell they were paper. So I picked up this one from the museum shop. On looking at the booklet and printed parts, if I'd not seen one built-up I would have been skeptical that it was possible to actually build it at all, but once I made a start all it took was a few hours to re-calibrate my acceptance criteria for models, and it's gone OK so far. This one will never be as good as a plastic kit, or anything like as good as the ones I've seen built by 100% paper ship modellers, but with practice I'm sure I'll improve.

My advice would be to go for a simple one and make a start. I didn't realise these HMV models are rated in difficulty - I think mine is "difficult", but it was written in German (schwierig). I would have bought a simple one if I'd have realised. I got a patrol boat for my pal at work, but it turns out his is probably even worse (sehr schwierig)