Péricles
Paper Commander
Hello friends!
It is with great pleasure that I begin with that thread a description of the assembly of the papermodel of Dralthi IV. That is an initiative and an idea that it appeared me from the birth of the project Paper Commander, to demonstrate for the whole community Wing Commander the steps of construction of the papermodels that will be available in the next updates.
I will also take advantage and to comment on a little on papers and tools for the assembly. I hope you appreciate. Dralthi IV will be available for download in the project Paper Commander http://papercommander.solsector.net/index.htm with other four models (that will also have construction reports here) in the beginning of April.
To build paper models is a form relatively fast and economical of having a beautiful collection of models highly with results satisfactory why neither demands a lot of practice nor a lot of tools. Tends access the a computer with printer, white glue, cuts, knife, ruler and tweezers are possible to build beautiful replicas.
Excuse me if the text was long but I found necessary to present those explanations.
Materials and tools
Paper:
I usually use filecoat (filiset) or opaline paper with thickness among 100 to 240g to build the models (the more used are the 120g and 180g) sincerely I don't know as they are the measures out of the metric system but I believe that should exist conversion tables for USA and UK and other countries that don't use the metric system.
The name of Papershop is suggestive
The combined use of scissors with knives type x-acto it is advisable, mainly to cut pieces with intricate details
The best glue for papermodels is a White PVA Glue (in USA is a Elmer's glue), but other types is useful: CA and Hancraft Glues
Rullers and a specialized tool to crease folds, in the case a spatula of dental use.
Those tools usually used to clean nails and for sculpture in cookery (cake statues) they are very used for us to get curved profiles in the paper without to hurt or to create folds no wanted.
Tweezers of different formats are very useful to hold brims or small pieces in the hour of the gluing...
For finish and protection we can use colored pencil, acrilic paint or hidrocolor pen to eliminate angles in white or small imperfections caused in the hour of the assembly. To protect the paper of the humidity, of mushrooms and sun damages we used protecting varnish or protection layer in spray.
The model:
This assembly test begins with the cut of all the pieces. This model of Dralthi IV especially came from an old mod for the game Homeworld, I don't know the creator's name nor of the textures if somebody knows for me to give the credit in the model would be very interesting...
The model in spite of simple offers a moderate challenge and it is quite attractive. Initially it will just be distributed in the scale 1/200.
Cover and planeed model
All pieces cut
Many pieces building
All pieces building done
Next posts will begin the final assembly, I apologize for my poor English and for the long postage.
Greetings!
Péricles
It is with great pleasure that I begin with that thread a description of the assembly of the papermodel of Dralthi IV. That is an initiative and an idea that it appeared me from the birth of the project Paper Commander, to demonstrate for the whole community Wing Commander the steps of construction of the papermodels that will be available in the next updates.
I will also take advantage and to comment on a little on papers and tools for the assembly. I hope you appreciate. Dralthi IV will be available for download in the project Paper Commander http://papercommander.solsector.net/index.htm with other four models (that will also have construction reports here) in the beginning of April.
To build paper models is a form relatively fast and economical of having a beautiful collection of models highly with results satisfactory why neither demands a lot of practice nor a lot of tools. Tends access the a computer with printer, white glue, cuts, knife, ruler and tweezers are possible to build beautiful replicas.
Excuse me if the text was long but I found necessary to present those explanations.
Materials and tools
Paper:
I usually use filecoat (filiset) or opaline paper with thickness among 100 to 240g to build the models (the more used are the 120g and 180g) sincerely I don't know as they are the measures out of the metric system but I believe that should exist conversion tables for USA and UK and other countries that don't use the metric system.
The name of Papershop is suggestive
The combined use of scissors with knives type x-acto it is advisable, mainly to cut pieces with intricate details
The best glue for papermodels is a White PVA Glue (in USA is a Elmer's glue), but other types is useful: CA and Hancraft Glues
Rullers and a specialized tool to crease folds, in the case a spatula of dental use.
Those tools usually used to clean nails and for sculpture in cookery (cake statues) they are very used for us to get curved profiles in the paper without to hurt or to create folds no wanted.
Tweezers of different formats are very useful to hold brims or small pieces in the hour of the gluing...
For finish and protection we can use colored pencil, acrilic paint or hidrocolor pen to eliminate angles in white or small imperfections caused in the hour of the assembly. To protect the paper of the humidity, of mushrooms and sun damages we used protecting varnish or protection layer in spray.
The model:
This assembly test begins with the cut of all the pieces. This model of Dralthi IV especially came from an old mod for the game Homeworld, I don't know the creator's name nor of the textures if somebody knows for me to give the credit in the model would be very interesting...
The model in spite of simple offers a moderate challenge and it is quite attractive. Initially it will just be distributed in the scale 1/200.
Cover and planeed model
All pieces cut
Many pieces building
All pieces building done
Next posts will begin the final assembly, I apologize for my poor English and for the long postage.
Greetings!
Péricles
Great work my friend great work