Vickers Jockey MK II 1/100

[Don Boose]

For U.S. modelers, I have found that 67-pound Wassau Exact Index (available in most office supply stores) is suitable for models in the 1/100 range. It is .008"/0.2mm thick.

However, I would be glad to have advice from those of you with more experience and skill than I regarding papers available in the States.

Don

[Krzychu74]

Hello!
Really here is a problem with counting the thickness of paper. Out of habit I am giving the metric measure. Formers in the model are worked out to paper 0.2 mm (boosed: if I good understood it is .008", yes?) If somebody has the conversion factor of the thickness of paper from metric measures for use in USA I`ll supplement the description.

Best regards.
Krzychu74

[Don Boose]

Yes. By my measurement with a cheap micrometer, the Wassau Exact Bristol [NOT "Index" as I erroneously said in my last posting] 67-pound paper is 0.2mm thick, which is .008 inches.

By comparison, the paper on which my GPM models are printed is .009 inches, or .023mm, which is equivalent to Wassau Exact Index 110-pound paper.

Bill Geoghegan has a table of paper weights and thicknesses that he might be willing to share with us (are you there DrBill?)

Don

[dansls1]

http://www.geoghegan.us/cardstock.htm

Hopefully i didn't steal DrBill's thunder - but I have this link in my favorites and refer to it often when these topics come up.

I also use 67# cover stock for everything I've printed. I haven't built any 1/100 models - but I can say that I'd start with the 67# and only change if I ran into difficulties. It measures and feels the same as the paper for the Modelik BF109 and the Halinski Mustang - and surely the cockpit details are going to be as small as most detail bits on a 1/100 model.

[Krzychu74]

Hello!
boosed: thank you for explanation.
dansls1: thank you! I`ve added this webside in my favorite too. It`ll be very helpfull in the future.
Thank for your notes. I`ve inserted corrected file with parts and I hope, that now there is already better. I apologize you for problems.

Best regards.
Krzychu74

[Ashrunner]

When I first began "building" card models, I was using the 67lb cardstock Boosed mentioned. It worked well for some models, but I was having trouble with other models.

One day wandering the paper aisle of one of the local stores, I noticed a pad of drawing paper from Strathmore. Its 70lb (104 gsm), and pure white in color. It comes in several sizes, including 5.5x8.5 inches (14x21.6 cm), which fits many 1:50 or thereabout scale kits designed for Letter or A4 cardstock.

What I like about the paper is it is a lot easier for me to work with when working with those even smaller, fiddly parts. When printing Volker's Racepaper and Streetpaper kits in 1:100 scale, this paper is great.

[Don Boose]

Krzychu74: No problems! I am just delighted to have this beautiful little airplane available. I first saw it in the early 50s as a Douglas Rolf drawing, which I copied using a crow quill pen and India ink (I still have it, along with my many other copies of Douglas Rolf drawings -- mostly of Curtiss biplane fighters).

Dan: Thanks for posting the URL to Bill's helpful table if information.

Ash: Many thanks for this info. I will be on the qui vive for this Strathmore paper for my little Trotskiys and the Vickers Jockey.

Don

[Wyvern]

Lovely model and lovely built-up example, gentlemen.

Wyvern