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Old 02-10-2021, 08:12 PM
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Started in the 50's when I was 5 or 6 with stick and tissue civil aviation, then got into plastic shortly after with Aurora and Hawk. Then around 63 got introduced to AMT car models and automotive subjects became my main thing. Over the years picked up a few paper models here and there. Then discovered PMI around 2000 and saw a bunch of antique cars that you couldn't get in plastic and was hooked.
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Old 12-03-2021, 11:51 PM
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It was the book Mathematical Models by Martyn H. Cundy and A.P. Rollet which I discovered by chance at the Evanston (Illinois) Public Library, probably when I was in junior high school. I now have my own copy on a bookshelf right next to my desk and still like using it.
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Old 12-03-2021, 11:56 PM
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Iall manually designed with French curves, etc. Then my 13 year old son taught me ModelCAD.
I have a set of French curves but I never could figure out how to use them to get good results. I never found any instructions on how to use them (this was before the internet). I also have something made of plastic and filled with something to make a bendable curve for the same purpose, but the results also were never good.

With computers, these things have mosty gone the way of the buggy-whip but I keep them around just in case and because I appreciate tools.
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Old 12-04-2021, 05:25 AM
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With computers, these things have mosty gone the way of the buggy-whip but I keep them around just in case and because I appreciate tools.
You are absolutely right, Laurence Finston. The French curves set is a good tool for cutting. It is more effective than to cut by scissors. Only CNC machines are better than the French curve set. But CNC machines are not paper modeling. It is industrial production.
I made my own set of curves. These are Kobenhavn curves set for shipbuilding. Very handy thing!
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Old 12-04-2021, 12:35 PM
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Back in the mid 60's, I discovered an ad for paper models in a modeling magazine. I believe the vendor was John Hathaway. The ad read, "Look closely, this model was made from paper" I don't remember what the model was, probably a ship or aircraft, but I was interested enough to send for his catalog and a couple of small models. He sold kits, mostly from Wilhelmshaven and Schreiber. I built some railway models in 1:250 and a mine sweeper. They look crude compared to what I do these days, but I was hooked. I built a lot of plastic models, even some stick and tissue aircraft, but I always come back to paper. There is a level of satisfaction here that I just don't find in any other medium.
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Old 12-04-2021, 06:01 PM
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Dear Bob
I have an original John Hathaway catalog from the mid '60s. I wonder if there would be an interest in scanned PDF's of early ads and catalogs to be put in the download section ?
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I started off when I was 5 years old by roughly putting together the spitfire of the pic, , then when I was 9 my father put together for me the fokker dr1 , then at the age of 10 I started making my own simple models , I remember the first close to scale model i designed was the norththrop yb-49, then a super constellation, a c-130, b-17, p-51, b-29,b-52 and others, at the age of 12 I guess I started making a NASA dc-4 which is on the download section of this page... not the greatest but i suppose that was something, I quit the hobby until i was 20, I entered the aviation school and since was alone I decided to make some models every once in awhile, the guys at the school liked my models so much, I got hired by avianca then latam and flying the big jets 767 and 777 took a lot of time from me so the hobby was aside, I quit latam after 12 years to fly the gulfstream g450 and the pandemic gave me some extra time, so since last year I've had the most productive paper designing and building time of my life , in the past year and a half I've designed the whitley, the ga.43 clark. boeing 247, fokker super universal. DC-4E, the wb-50, boeing 314, breguet deux ponts is on the way and many more coming, as well as more than 60 recolors of different airplanes
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I've been a scale 'on-and-off' modeler from about ten years old. First plastic and then wood. Paper models I found late eighties in Prague where I saw first time all these wonderfull Betexa models. For some time I just collected them but 1990 I jumped to deep end of the pool and my first ever paper model build was Pratzky Hrad - the Prague castle.

We still have it along with other Checz castle model - my wife loves them and we dust them carefully every spring. I get to do some maintenance on them too.

After those paper castle years I just wondered around paper modeling, buying kits, collecting free stuff from internet until I found this site and became really interest in the 'art'. My own niche (if I have one) I guess is scratch building, that's what I like most anyway - designing my models on to go. Having been away from the hobby for the last few years I once again decided to jump at the deep end and started my HMB Endeavour build. I'm trying to build it as it is meant to be built - sort of OOB kinda way. A first one for me becaus I remember running away from paper model kits because I thought I don't have a skill set to do them properly.

I have also decided what will be my last build when that time comes - I go back to Prague again. :-)

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These are Kobenhavn curves set for shipbuilding.
I never heard of those and now I want a set. :o

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Dear Bob
I have an original John Hathaway catalog from the mid '60s. I wonder if there would be an interest in scanned PDF's of early ads and catalogs to be put in the download section ?
Enjoy
Miles
Hi Miles,
Good idea! There is a lot of nostalgia for us "old timers" and a bit of paper model history for all. I still have a copy...somewhere. The prices were cheaper than plastic kits, even back then. Those mine sweepers, there were 2 models in the kit, cost around $0.75. I'm interested!


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