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11-02-2014, 02:34 AM
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My first models were Animals from Canon Papercraft dogs mostly
my next models motorcycles from Yamaha then i started making Hako models and actually designed a bunch myself. now I build everything and anything 
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11-02-2014, 03:06 AM
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My first 3 were the Half track, M-1 Abrams Tank from Paper Paradise, and the FG F-16, also from Paper Paradise, because there was no FG website yet. Anybody remember the old Paper Air Force program you downloaded?
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11-02-2014, 06:54 AM
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My first was the Hubble telescope (simple) from NASA.gov, the second was the complex model of the same. My stepson and I were looking at Hubble photos on the NASA site and found the model and gave it a try. My third was the Apollo CM & SM from Lower Hudson site........Rich
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02-28-2017, 12:37 PM
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My first models were ones I designed. I first started designing I think in high school. I wanted to do an Italian modern Littorio class battleship and was working doing the bulkheads with cardboard and the hull-sides with 20# paper. It didn't work. I never got to the turrets or superstructure.
Eventually, I resumed up in Juneau Alaska in the mid-80s. We needed more classes of ships ... besides the 1:720 Revells - how many spare Ark Royal carriers kits are lying around, because we needed multiple Tribal class destroyers, I wonder - and 1:700 Japanese available at the time. I designed manually, using French curves (carefully marked), ruler, pencil, etc. My first was a Sims class destroyer, because there were no plastic model kits of early WW2 U.S. destroyers. With toothpick axes, I even had the turrets and torpedo tubes turning. My next was a Soldati class Italian destroyer - you can seem these on my Lou Coatney: Home Page webpage - which went pretty well, despite the trunked/curved stack and steep sheer of the bow. Then came the British L&M and L/AA class destroyers. I was designing Zara class heavy cruisers but was defeated by the complex superstructures. (Zio's own large scale model plan explains that.) And I was working on the Cesare/Cavour class battleships, the Le Fantasque French destroyers, and the Strasbourg/Dunkerque battle cruisers. Then my 13 yr old son Robert taught me how to use CAD in/about 1991, and I discovered that I could simply mirror-image the hull-sides and design down to .001" for absolute accuracy ... using simple little ModelCAD ... and I have continued doing that ... although for the past few years I've been designing wargames which distracts me. (Also, domestic ... challenges ... now over here in Norway for my small(er) children.) I've GOT to finish my book of plans! ... but they will be un-colored. Both on LCoat.tripod and www.CoatneyHistory.com I have free plans, and on the latter, some of them are colored ... although mostly in gray.  With ModelCAD I have completed about 30 designs and am finishing up the Cesare/Cavour and Doria/Duilio modernized Italian battleships, our large Sangamon class escort carriers, and the South Dakota/Alabama class battleships. I should probably finish test-building those before continuing Strasbourg/Dunkerque, but I love those ships ...  I did have a (5.5 on the Richter Scale) heart attack 6 weeks ago and an angiogram which went very well, according to the lady doctor over here. (Everything was free with a minimum of fuss and worry, thanks to Norway's national health care.) I am 70 now, and need to finalize my bucket list. This reminds me, I need to have dinner and get out for my heart-rebuilding walk. Later, guys.
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#46
02-28-2017, 01:53 PM
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My very first model was a Fiddlersgreen Piper Cub and with a huge amount of help from my mentor Willygoat. With out him it would still be a pile of yellow paper. I happen to stumble into Fiddlersgreen web site and they were offering three free models is you got on there news letter. I think paper had just been discovered and was when just came out too. wc
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