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Originally Posted by Paper Kosmonaut
Looks great, Dave! What kind of paper did you use? It doesn't look like it has been printed on an inkjet - or it has to be satin gloss photo paper.
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Thanks for the kind words. Not sure what kind of printer it was; I went to my local copy shop, handed them my thumbdrive with the files and asked them to copy them at 66 percent so the model would be 1/48th scale.
Our Epson color printer, which we bought in Kuwait, uses ink cartridges that apparently you can't buy in Kuwait. (Welcome to the logic around here....) The print shop makes better copies anyway.
As for paper, I used "SpectaColor Fancy Colour Board," made in Indonesia, which has a weight of 180 gsm. Not sure what that works out to in pounds, but it folds and shapes pretty well and seems pretty strong.
As for printing.... My wife has an HP printer that just prints in B&W (she uses it for school) and I actually toyed with the thought of building the model in black and white. So many of the old photos we see of the X-15 are in B&W, so I thought, "Why not make a landing diorama in black and white?" I remember, years ago (maybe in FineScale Modeler?) seeing some plastic modeler using only white and black and shades of gray to paint a diorama to replicate a B&W photo. It looked pretty sharp.