Faro Basso

[John Wagenseil]

A model of an Italian Faro Basso has been released by UHU. It looks like it has some parts that look simple but are not.
Thank you for another interesting model.

(PS. Audrey Hepburn was kwai, before there was kwai. She was also mo.)

[aaronlam]

Oh dear, but the download is ended for this fantastic motorcycle... so sad that I miss it... :(

[SJPONeill]

Nope...it's still available as I just d/l it and the instructions...totally different from Uhu02's normal subject matter but still well up there in the PM Challenge stakes...I'd been happy to be able to build just one of the tyres...

[John Wagenseil]

I don't think I will be giving away one of UHU's forbidden secrets since it is visible on his build threads for all to see even if it is not mentioned: it is one of his techniques for forming ultra-small parts.
I just used it on a tiny "impossible" part for a Prudenzio model, and made the part perfectly first time!
UHU san cuts windows around parts before doing the final cut out and this seems to relieve pressure on the part and results in less wrinkling as the excess paper bulges and wrinkles toward the window and not the part.
Also you can score , cut ,fold , and glue with the small part still attached to the paper sheet by one edge. The uncut edges connecting to the paper sheet give you a large area to hold onto before doing a fold of a tiny part .
This lets you treat a tiny part like a much larger piece of paper.
I am sure the experts out there already knew this, but it is a new technique to me.
Unfortunately, you cannot do this with Czech paper models and some other Eastern European models where it seems a point of honor among designers to have as many parts as possible on a page and leave no blank space on the page.

Thank you UHU san for designing all of your fantastic models and for the Ah Ha moment when I figured out one of your methods for making them.

[ashevilleangler]

John, thanks for this tip. Now that you have revealed this secret technique I will use it religiously for small parts. As for the Czechs and other European countries, maybe it's just the cost of paper.

Curt

[Don Boose]

This is a variation on the technique discussed in another thread of leaving an extra paper margin when making long, straight, multiple parallel folds. Both seem obvious (and I sometimes have left small parts attached at one end in the past without really thinking about what I was doing) now that they have been brought to light, but I never recognized the value of the technique until now.

Domo arigato, John.

[titanicslim]

Can someone tell me how to use the Uhu site? I try to download and it just keeps asking me to pay, which I did already...

Thanks!
Dave

[titanicslim]

Originally Posted by titanicslim

Can someone tell me how to use the Uhu site?

Please disregard- figured it out.

Also, thanks VERY much for the info- I was miserably ignorant of this site.

Dave