Ship hulls

[JCA]

Has anyone attempted using paper mache for ship hulls?
Found this while doing some research on paper ships.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Pap...e-Ship-Models/
I am considering doing this as an underlayment for the hull plating.

[Kevin WS]

JCA - never tried it, but why not? Sounds like an excellent idea to me.........

[Michael Mash]

It would seem to have a lot of potential.
As with most techniques, it depends on the skill of the modeler.
A builder skilled at paper mache should be able to get excellent results.
Mike

[maurice]

You know with thoughts like those you might benefit from getting hold of a copy of -

Cardboard Engineering with Scissors & Paste
G H Deason
Model Aeronautical Press Ltd, Watford, 1958

Most likely have to be from a source in the UK

OK so he used brown gummed paper tape (still obtainable from some craft souces) rather than paper mache - but same ball park.

[Oldenburger67]

Hello JCA,



thank you very much for your Link.
I think, there are thousand ways to go to rome.
Insofar this is one way.
If one would use epoxy instead of ordinary lime, one could even build an rc model out of cardboard.

Just give it a try, the next summer is Comming!


I wish you a nice christmas


The Oldenburger

[JCA]

Thanks for your input. I experimented on a small hull section I built. I see some possibilities but way too messy, think I'll leave the arts and crafts to Martha Stewart. Happy holidays to all!

[Mike1158]

When I was a lad I made a model like this, I had been given a wreck of a ship hull made from wood and was told to go and fix it. I used the hull as a mould and used papier mache style with some glass fibre resin on the final layers. It was simplistic and nothing great but it did sail, for a while. It was borrowed by a once good friend and 'sailed' on the Thames where it sailed into the distance not to be seen again.

[PAPER FAN]

It seems complicated to me. Others here have used packing foam they subsequently sanded back to the frames. I fill many with balsa and sand back to the frames with very good results.

[John Wagenseil]

I have used papermache to build up and smooth over the former ribs and low spots between them on paper model hulls, before covering with printed parts, but never as material for entire hull.

I think it would take almost forever for a large solid paper mache hull to dry out.

[JCA]

John, that is what I'm trying to achieve, a smooth surface over the formers to glue the hull plates to. I always seem to get that buckle where the ribs are. I use chipboard for the formers and try to sand to conform to the hull shape but the buckles remain.