Arguably it’s not something for every card modeler out there either because of philosophical or financial reasons but for those few willing to give it a try I have something new I’ve recently developed and tested for the HMCS Agassiz model published by HMV a few months ago.
I call it 3D Hull Core, it is 3D printed hull form and is intended as replacement for the internal hull frames allowing easier assembly and higher quality surfaces to be obtained by elimination of wavy and saggy hull sides and decks. I tested it myself and it works like a dream. You can see it on attached images.
There is a leaflet showing the assembly process on Paper Lab Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/PaperLabPublishing/
Unfortunately Paper Lab regular website is still under reconstruction and all this info is not available there. It will as soon as I can complete it’s redesign, which should happen within a week or two.
3D Hull Core is already available form Paper Lab Shapeways store here:
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/paper-lab
BTW if you have an opinion on this matter I would be very interested to hear it or even better if you tried my Core I hope you’d share your impressions.
Darius