Lipko
05-23-2012, 03:06 AM
Hi all!
This is an unfinished model of a Pzkpfw IV Ausf. H without side armours.
This was my last model I made about ten years ago.
That time I didn't know how popular this art is, and I didn't know much about it. That means I had to develop all the techniques (okay, the basic techniques are quite straightforward for paper modelling) and all the models from scratch. These models were all designed by hand (no softwares) on graph-paper, and I copied the things to the cardboard using simple carbon paper. The cardboard itself is the simple, 0.5 mm thick decoration paper (sorry, I'm not a native English speaker and I don't know what it's called) like cereal boxes. sometimes I used simple photo copy paper.
I tried to be a purist but I had to use some thin wooden sticks. The purism included non using any sculpting-like techniques like carving big paper blocks or moulding/shaping pulp. Well, my "purism" included using dense paint...
I tried to make everything as boxes, but I used layered techniques a lot too. This was because unlike many people thought (and still thinks about paper modelling that way), I didn't have too much patience and dexterity, so I wanted to use as quick and easy techniques as possible. That means the number of layers was usually at most 10 layers, very rarely 20.
Anyway, this model was designed simply by scaling up a 1:35 plastic model (so the scale is 1:17.5), since it was (still is) very hard to find detailed pictures and blueprints of real vehicles (and measuring a real model in real life was a non-option for a kid of course).
I'm very curious about opinions!
Link to the gallery (http://www.papermodelers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=939)
Thanks!
This is an unfinished model of a Pzkpfw IV Ausf. H without side armours.
This was my last model I made about ten years ago.
That time I didn't know how popular this art is, and I didn't know much about it. That means I had to develop all the techniques (okay, the basic techniques are quite straightforward for paper modelling) and all the models from scratch. These models were all designed by hand (no softwares) on graph-paper, and I copied the things to the cardboard using simple carbon paper. The cardboard itself is the simple, 0.5 mm thick decoration paper (sorry, I'm not a native English speaker and I don't know what it's called) like cereal boxes. sometimes I used simple photo copy paper.
I tried to be a purist but I had to use some thin wooden sticks. The purism included non using any sculpting-like techniques like carving big paper blocks or moulding/shaping pulp. Well, my "purism" included using dense paint...
I tried to make everything as boxes, but I used layered techniques a lot too. This was because unlike many people thought (and still thinks about paper modelling that way), I didn't have too much patience and dexterity, so I wanted to use as quick and easy techniques as possible. That means the number of layers was usually at most 10 layers, very rarely 20.
Anyway, this model was designed simply by scaling up a 1:35 plastic model (so the scale is 1:17.5), since it was (still is) very hard to find detailed pictures and blueprints of real vehicles (and measuring a real model in real life was a non-option for a kid of course).
I'm very curious about opinions!
Link to the gallery (http://www.papermodelers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=939)
Thanks!