cardist

Hello chums, I have been a life-long modeller, mostly in plastic, but for the past 11 years I have concentrated all of my builds in paper. Since changing to this medium, a whole world of subjects have opened up and I am at the stage where I will build just about anything, aircraft, ships, afv's, figures, real-space and sci-fi. So, on to my newest post. I have no idea what the chapter is, but this is one of the Rhino APC's. This is one of Patoroch's kits, in 1/60th scale and is freely available for download. What got me on to this? They are all free! Have you seen the price of Warhammer kits? Shocking! This is totally from paper. Card structure, skin from printed templates, paper tubes, paper rivets. I had loads of fun with this build and had to have a go at making a Space Marine to go with it. From paper of course.

Last one for this build. The track spuds were made from balsa, sanded to shape and cut to size using a simple jig. The spuds were then assembled from slivers of card and card rivets........ .........followed by a lick of grey paint before fitting them to the rails around the hull. Some accessories for the stowage bins were made from card and paper. Finishing touches came from shading and highlighting from pastels and watercolours. Thanks for the comments and for stopping by folks.

Thanks Murdo, here's some more. Tracks this time. These are cut out, scored and embossed to form rivet heads. Each of the track spuds were formed around a needle. Sore on the old fingers! A simple jig was made to glue-up the links. Each link was glued to a strip of 0.5mm grey card. The jig kept the links straight and evenly spaced. Can't remember how many links per side, but they formed a nice loop when formed. Was quite pleased with the result. Stay tooned for the next instalment.

Ok, chums, next instalment. The Hotchkiss mg's are made from card, plastic rod and wire. A handy plastic bead helps to mount in the guns in the cabin.

The track sponsons are attached to the hull. Cabin interior added from bits and bobs. Referenced from Bovington photos. Cabin with interior. All rivets have been embossed from the inside. Cabin and stowage bins in place.

Hello all, further to my post on completed builds, this is how I made the Whippet. A core is made from 1mm thick grey-board. This stuff comes from the back of A4 writing pads. The templates are printed on normal copy paper and glued to the card with spray adhesive. The core is then wrapped in the printed skin. Same process for the track sponsons, but this time it is just 2 layers of 0.2mm card laminated together. The rivets are all embossed before laminating. Extra layers are applied to highlight surface details. The track adjusters are made from different thicknesses of card, plastic rod and nuts/rivets from paper. More to follow.

Hello all, some small progress today. These are the Carley Float sponsons. Strips of card are cut with a single-edged razor blade and glued with PVA........ ......and then fixed in place.

Hello friends, thanks for all of your kind and constructive comments. I agree with the photography elements, but I am just a beginner in this aspect. I have a few modelling chums who use free downloads as templates to make in plastic card and these are stunning builds. I have never tried this myself as I find the card making process just as adaptable and less expensive. The rivets were all embossed from the inside and were indeed "a labour of love" I will post a new thread of how it was made over on wip.

Hello all, long time lurker who has managed to work out how to upload pictures. So here are a few of the whippet I did a couple of years ago.

Hi Arnold, thank you, and yes they are scratch-built. I design all the parts using a vector drawing package, print, cut out, score, fold and then glue. Extra bits are from wire and slivers of card. These are some of the parts made so far. I am not happy with the size and colour of the lines used though. I shall tone these down on further builds. These are the parts for the quad pom-poms, so that you can see the process. The same process is used for the twin Oerlikon mounts. The barrels are from the support sprues for Blackcat accessories for the pom-pom and fuse wire for the Oerlikon.

Thank you shipmates. I have been making paper models for over 10 years now, the challenges are on a completely different level to other media. So, on with some more progress. The bridge is totally devoid of detail, so references are a must here. The parts are based on drawings found on the interweb and conjecture for what can be found on the bridge. The rangefinders are from paper tubes and fuse wire. Masting is turned brass rod and plastic rod, everything else from the kit. I have scratch-built all of the ships weapons, with the exception of the main gun-shields. This is due to the over-simplified versions included in the kit. Main guns are tubes made from cigarette paper, with details from wire and card. Gun mounting in 'B' position. Extra details for support webs etc. 'X' and 'P' positions. The 4" Dual purpose mount has been redesigned and scratch-built.

Some more cutting and gluing. The fo'cs'le is almost devoid of detail, more on this later. Main structural components joined. More parts and a start to the missing detail up front. More details added. Anchor chains are from JSC.

Many thanks for this Jamie. All of the earlier kits from JSC, with regards to RN ships, have rather garish and inaccurate shades. Even the most recent ones such as Exeter and Ajax have the wrong shade of grey. Hence my forays into recolouring and eventually to designing my own ships. My first point of reference for project colours is your very comprehensive guide on your Sovereign Hobbies website. The panel will be no problem to recolour and past over the top.

Hello all, my first build-share here. I am a big fan of the ships from Polish company, JSC. Notwithstanding the fact that they have to compromise when it comes to colours used, they are basically accurate and if you have the right skills and software, they can be changed, adapted, converted, recoloured, etc. I have ordered all of my kits from the company in Poland, usually in batches of three with relevant accessories. Including postage, these never come to more than £30. Even with accessories, paper kits lack a lot of details, so if you go down this road then a lot of scratch-building is involved. This is my method. I start with extra supports from 1mm card. OK, you get the picture. stuff is cut from card, folded and glued together. It really doesn't get more complicated than this.

Continuing with my scratch-builds to 400 scale in paper. This is HMS Campbeltown converted for the raid on St. Nazaire. Again some bits-and-bobs from the Mirage kit and Oerlikons from Blackcat models. Railings, ladders, etc. are from generic laser sets from JSC.

Good to see such quality work on this old Airfix classic. Thanks for sharing.

Hello all, getting used to inserting pictures now. So, I thought I would share another scratch-build. HMS Campbeltown as she appeared after being converted from USS Buchanan. This is made from paper with some fittings from the Mirage kit.

Hello all, thanks for the kind words. HMS Atherstone was a Hunt Type 1 and in this configuration formed part of the escort group for Operation Chariot on March 26, 1942. I have completed HMS Campbeltown and working on HMS Tynedale for an Op. Chariot diorama.

Various plans downloaded from the interweb. I was going to build the JSC paper kit, but this is a group 2 version and I wanted a group 1. So, it had to be redesigned as the dimensions between the groups were different.

Hello all. This is my first scratch-build. It is all made from paper in 1/400 scale

This is my first post here, so thanks for the add and pleased to meet you all. My forte is paper modelling and I have been progressing the 1/400 scale kit from JSC Poland.