Introduction and model thread

[michaelwlf3]

Hello! Glad to have found this place. I have been working on paper models for a couple of months and it's a lot harder than it looks.

Here are a couple of Delta 7 models I have been working on, both with fatal flaws.

[michaelwlf3]

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[B-Manic]

Welcome. It looks like you are off to a good start.

[michaelwlf3]

I'm getting better at it, but I look at your members gallery and am blown away.

[michaelwlf3]

[michaelwlf3]

[michaelwlf3]

Since I have been here I have learned about using cardboard disks to help keep the ships round - something I hadn't thought of before.

Looking through some of the stuff I had printed out already, I found a Blue Gemini on matte paper that I can try next, and try not to make some kind of mistake on it.

[willygoat]

Welcome! Don't be so down on yourself. You're just starting after all. It's when you've been modeling a few years and you make a huge mistake when you should be really upset. Not when you're just starting.

[michaelwlf3]

Thank you for the welcome.

Here's the thing: I used to build plastic models and thought I was pretty good at it. Almost none of the skills from that translate over to paper models. This is a lot harder.

It is addictive, though!

[willygoat]

Plastic shmastic! Actually, I do still build one every now and again. But, paper is much more forgiving, and to me anyway, it's more gratifying to take a flat piece of paper and turn it into a beautiful 3-d piece of art.