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  1. Hi All, I am amazed that it's been many months since my last update. This summer has been really hectic, what with summer holidays, both our children graduating form university and the associated chaos trying to ship home three to four years of domestic 'stuff' and the consequent unravelling of all the duplicated stuff … Anyway, on to the topic. This one is a bit different from my other posts in that it's a paper kit. I discovered some time ago that there are legitimate sites where you can down-load paper kits of various things. One of these is Canon (not surprising, given that they make printers), another more surprising source is Yamaha. (Search "Yamaha Papercraft" on Google). They provide pdf files to make highly detailed models of some of their more interesting bikes. These come in 'realistic' and 'ultra-realistic'. The sad thing is that they are going to shut down the site at the end of this month. 😕 They also come in 'coloured' and 'line drawing'. I have tried the coloured version of one of the bikes, and while it looks quite good, I though that I might give a go at using the line-drawing version and paint it. This is the 'Ultra Realistic' model. The kit comes as a series of A4 pages like this: Some of these kits have as many as 1300 parts. That's a lot of cutting, folding and gluing... You get a set of assembly instructions, like this: The idea is to assemble the kit as normal, but paint it (with non-aqueous paints), to see if it turns out more like a model. The only real costs are a few electrons for the data, some printer ink, the paper (or card) and some glue. The best glue is PVA craft glue. This may be a very short article as the whole venture may fail. When I paint the assembled sub-assemblies, the paper (or light card) may buckle The paint may be unrealistic The model may be more unrealistic that using the colour parts. I am planning to use 160 gsm light card as I think that it may be more robust than using paper. So far, I have assembled one of the rocker box covers, thus: It looks rather 'paper-ish' at the moment. This is what it looks like assembled: The next stage is to try priming it and coating with aluminium paint. More to come, I hope... All the best, Alan.
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