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Originally Posted by hjlyuen
There is no way I can fabricate 1/87 scale elbows out of paper for this model so I decided on long continuous length of 1 mm tubing and bending it to shape. I can roll a small diameter tube where the parallel side meet, also known as a convoluted roll, but only for short lengths and not for the 19.5 cm needed for this model. So I tried a spiral roll (like what you would see on a paper towel tube) but could not keep the overlaps even and the tube slowly gained diameter as it increased in length. In the end, I reverted back to the convoluted roll. Does anyone know a better way to roll small diameter tubes? |
What about (just thinking out loud here) running the paper between a couple of pieces of threaded rod to 1) give it a built-in curl, and 2) to create corrugated paper that could then (after being formed into a pipe) be more easily bent without compressing the tube at the bend points?