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Old 01-14-2019, 02:34 PM
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Attractive looking camo! The cardboard thickness you apply to reinforce the formers is spot on. Usually the instructions call for using 1mm thick cardboard. It’s my experience that you should use slightly thinner board, such as 0.8-0.9mm thickness. Rather read it as “the total thickness to be 1mm”. Especially when having to glue those small tabs in the former slots such a small difference in thickness really makes a difference! For 0.5mm thick board it doesn’t make that much difference. Halinski, Orlik and the like use 0,15-0.2mm thick paper so that’s why. Sometimes you read in the instructions that parts have to be laminated with “brystolem” or something (indicated with a +). I recently learned from a Polish colleague that this word is derived from the town of Bristol in the UK, and is used to indicate a type of paper with a thickness of 0.15-0.2mm. So it simply means to double the particular part with scrap paper!

Cheers,
Erik
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