Introduction and model thread

[michaelwlf3]

Hello! Glad to have found this place. I have been working on paper models for a couple of months and it's a lot harder than it looks.

Here are a couple of Delta 7 models I have been working on, both with fatal flaws.

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[michaelwlf3]

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[B-Manic]

Welcome. It looks like you are off to a good start.

[michaelwlf3]

I'm getting better at it, but I look at your members gallery and am blown away.

[michaelwlf3]

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[michaelwlf3]

Since I have been here I have learned about using cardboard disks to help keep the ships round - something I hadn't thought of before.

Looking through some of the stuff I had printed out already, I found a Blue Gemini on matte paper that I can try next, and try not to make some kind of mistake on it.

[willygoat]

Welcome! Don't be so down on yourself. You're just starting after all. It's when you've been modeling a few years and you make a huge mistake when you should be really upset. Not when you're just starting.:p

[michaelwlf3]

Thank you for the welcome.

Here's the thing: I used to build plastic models and thought I was pretty good at it. Almost none of the skills from that translate over to paper models. This is a lot harder.

It is addictive, though!

[willygoat]

Plastic shmastic! Actually, I do still build one every now and again. But, paper is much more forgiving, and to me anyway, it's more gratifying to take a flat piece of paper and turn it into a beautiful 3-d piece of art. :D

[redhorse]

It looks really good! And you're right, it is really addictive....

[michaelwlf3]

I will have to do a complete build thread on one of these spaceship models. These are simple when you compare them to, say, the Saturn V or the Gemini/Titan models offered by the members here, but the simpler models that go fairly quickly can probably give you the confidence early on.

I also have an X-15 that I haven't built yet.

[Hans Christian]

well for a first timer, I say you're on the right track! Those are very clean builds!!!

[michaelwlf3]

Thanks. Coming from you guys, that means quite a bit.

[michaelwlf3]

Plastic shmastic! Actually, I do still build one every now and again. But, paper is much more forgiving, and to me anyway, it's more gratifying to take a flat piece of paper and turn it into a beautiful 3-d piece of art. :D

I have a couple of plastics that I am going to get into this winter, an Apollo 11 lunar lander and a generic Apollo CSM, both from Revell. I'd like to see Revell/Monogram or whoever they are reissue the 1/24 Gemini capsule.

But the paper models are seductive - I downloaded a bunch of the free ones scattered around the site since I have joined.

[willygoat]

Like you michael, I was a plastic modeler first, and the temptation of a nice plastic model is hard to resist. I have two that I want to do sometime. That's the problem with paper models though. I have a "short" list of 10 models that I want to build, and paper models can sometimes take much longer than plastic to build. :rolleyes:

[michaelwlf3]

I have three of the Delta 7 (http://www.delta7studios.com/dl.htm) CD's they sell on their site, and each CD has at least 20 models on it. I also have a bunch of single models I have downloaded free or paid for off of the internet.

I will never get all of these built!

I guess I'll just have a bunch of concurrent builds going on all the time. I don't know if it's ADD or it it's just like being a little kid in a candy store.