[cdavenport]

Though not nearly as malleable as sheet metal, paper can nonetheless be "curved" or rolled as metal workers know it.

I have a set of tools that I machined to do just that and have done so quite successfully on large scale aircraft.

I rolled the flat panels on this FJ-1 Fury to achieve the characteristic smooth compound curves of a modern jet instead of the choppy looking truncated cone sections common to paper models.

I am not sure how successful this technique would be in 1/43 scale, but I have no doubt it could be done in 1/25 or larger scales.