http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/533605-post106.html
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Originally Posted by Foute Man
Some of these ships have appeared on a certain russian downloadsite with building pics. posting a link to that site is out of the question i guess, because a lot of "pirate" models on that site...
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It is a pity that sometimes the only sites that preserve models that would otherwise be lost are the pirate sites. At least in this case the ship models were posted on a individual's web site, so that they could be preserved by the Internet Archive.
These are actually very nice water line models, and a couple of them are on my never to be completed , every growing to build list. The fact they have only part numbers, no instructions, makes them a bit of a puzzle.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit foundation and one day it might shut down it its funding runs out, which means the legitimate host of other wise lost forever models will be gone.
Models that are posted on Download sites by their designers are also ephemeral, since those sites are often targeted by governmental agencies and shut down since they often host materials that violate copyright laws.
I explored the site in the original post and found these links:
Pictures of assembled paper models
https://web.archive.org/web/20100309...sato/index.htm
More paper model ships to download
http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/01kanku/paper/paper.htm
Archived links to JSDF naval submarines (Kongo and Oyasio) and a LOVE BIRD (inko):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030625...e.jp/kusimaru/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030608...inko/inko.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030605...ngo/kongo.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030608...io/oyasio.html
An easy to make WW2 Akagi aircraft carrier:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030619...agi/akagi.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030414.../img/akagi.gif
A set of dead links, maybe someone here can track down the missing models:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050827...rame3_4_1.html
(edit, I think I found the model, see the next posts)