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Hi Don, good to see you back here. I use a lot of different types of paper nowadays. For SRM's and nose cones I like to use silk gloss photo paper, it shines but not too glossy, which is unrealistic. For the rest, I often use coloured paper of variable thickness and strengths with approximately the same colour as my build for inner structures or reinforcement. My common basic building material is 200 gram (±110lb) A4 laserjet paper which I put through my inkjet, which works fine.
I always look for structures in paper to be able to use them for a special purpose. Brownish beige ribbed structured fibrous paper might be very good for the skin of an Shuttle External Tank or a Delta IV booster. Paper with a little fabric like structure in it might be useful as the thermal blankets on the shuttle. Silver paper is good for Atlas type rockets, and so on. Try and find some of David Hanners' builds here (dhanners). He does magic combining all kinds of paper, including toilet paper! (-:
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