Anyone using card models yet?

[aferguson]

i've been talking, off and on for well over a year now, about using card models (aka paper models) to scale up to 1/18 and build or use as templates for building and i was wondering if anyone else has actually started using them or not? Just curious.

I finished a KV-2 last year and am half way through a WWI male Mk IV and am going to be doing an SU-85 tank destroyer soon. I'm also seriously contemplating starting an HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant in Vietnam livery. Paper models tend to be long drawn out projects (for impatient me anyway) so i generally do some work, put it aside, do some more work, put it aside and then low and behold one day in the distant future it's finished.

I'm quite excited about the prospects of the Jolly Green (4 foot long fuselage!) but am also very afraid..

[Gunner]

I tried to do a TOW launcher turret for a LAV-AT, but I didn't get far. I've still got lots of kits still to try, but haven't gotten past the "looking at" stage.

[7thva_hunter]

I made a Field kitchen.

[aferguson]

Medic83: not sure what kind of ideas you're looking for. The best advice i can give is to pick a subject you're really, really interested in. Tanks and armoured vehicles are the best subjects as they are usually all flat surfaces and sharp angles. No curves or worst of all compound curves to worry about.

Maybe start with something where you can use an existing XD chassis. Like a variation on the Panzer IV such as a Brummbar, stug iv, Hummel etc. That way half the work is done for you with the chassis....and the hard half of the work too.

[VMF115]

I used to make carded models when I was in high school, but the only thing I did so far was make a chair and platform for my Avengers radio room, its not even accrete, but looks ok.

I was thinking of making some European buildings, its not that hard, and a display stand for the gunbay panels for the 21st f-86

Aferguson I can imagine how difficult its going to be to make a HH-53 in one 1:18 scale, I made a PBY cat in 1:48 scale back when I was in 8 grade I started it when I was in 6th grade. It was not easy. Good luck and I hope you “Get -r - done”