[WWI] Att Stephen Auslander ot

[Douglas Anderson]

 A fellow model railroader. So what do you model and what is your favourite loco?
  I model South African Railways, favourite is the 7th class GMA and GL garretts. OT I am researching the carriage used to sign the armistice, and will have that with its full interior, and figes for each one present, probably in 1/48. I am also planning on an armoured train or railway gun, seeing what is available before I choose

Stephen Auslender <auslend at snet.net> wrote:
  The things is with these paper card models, you can make a copy and transfer the pattern to just about any flexible material you want. You can thus make a model out of thin sheet styrene plastic, or a metal of some type (brass, copper, aluminum, etc).
Another nice things about the paper card kits is they can be Xeroxed up or down to the scale you want to work in.
One problem with paper card models is that instead of getting a nice flowing complex curve (imagine a saddle shape) you get sharp curves that break as one geometric shape meets another at some angle and you do not get a blending.
This can be overcome in several ways. In sheet plastic the material can be worked by rubbing with the right tool so the material actually stretches and curves. This happens with metal, of course, look at the body work on cars. It is hard to work paper card to do this, however, but I imagine it had been done. 
Another disadvantage, as I see it, is that in some of these kits there is a lot of repetitive work. As an example, take a look at an army tank kit. Look at the page with the track parts, at the hundreds of intricate track parts. Its enough to drive me screaming out of the room. It did once, too. I haven't made a paper card model in years. I have a lot of them but I haven't gotten around to attempting it again. At least not in paper. 
I have started a model of my favorite locomotive in 1/24 scale for my model railroad. I'll make a rough copy out of paper card but then I'll make the powered one out of copper sheet and solder the thing together. Still, I could rivet it and I am seriously considering doing just that. I am good at welding but I really do not like silver soldering or brazing. I do prefer the rivet.
Too bad there were not too many rivets on the WW1 aeroplanes. They would have looked very interesting but I guess they would not have flown very well. You think?
Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Perry" 
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Gotha GIV 29" wingspan model


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>> I have this kit, and it is a beauty
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> Hi Peter, good to see you posting here again.
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> How thick and exactly what material is the card in your Gotha kit? That
> looks like it could be converted to electric R/C.
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> sp
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