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Old 01-20-2023, 10:51 AM
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Heidelberg

Once I had completed the Rotterdam set I wanted something a little more challenging, so I started on a very reduced in size the castle. in Heidelberg.

Unfortunately, it didn't come out as well as I had hoped, the instructions weren't that good and being so small was difficult to fit. Anyway, it was castle we have visited so that helped ;-).
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Old 01-20-2023, 10:57 AM
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Looks very nice to me.
Where did you find the kit?
Been there several times, had friends who lived in Heidelberg. We loved the Christmas markets there.
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Old 01-20-2023, 03:15 PM
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Ray,

Glad you like it !

You will find the kit (and a lot more) at

Heidelberger Schloss Massstab 1:1400 - Kamobo.de

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Old 01-20-2023, 05:24 PM
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One more very interesting model and the 1/1400 scale is an impressive by itself!

As I see, it was created by the Polish designer, Marian Szymaniak. By the way, I wonder why in the Poland and the Czech Republic the paper models are so extraordinarily popular and the magazines with the model sets so numerous?
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I love these old dense castles with closely pavked elements next to each other and all sorts of twists and turns to all possible directions. Having said this it also many times make then challenging to put together. You've done very well with this one. Kamobo.de has few different versions to offer of the castle and I have to decide which one to get. Cause Heidelberg Castle looks like something I want to build too. Thanks Mike for this one.

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Old 01-21-2023, 11:37 AM
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Thank you all for your comments, they are much appreciated.

Andrew, One of the main reasons for the paper models in Central Europe is the countries were governed by the Soviets. After the war it was almost impossible to get plastic kits and they were also too expensive if they did find them. Russia was making plastic kits but they were a very poor quality.

It was the ABC magazine in Czech that kept model making going although the paper quality was not very good.

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Old 01-21-2023, 05:30 PM
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Sounds (and looks) like you had a great trip, Mike. These models make terrific mementoes, as well as being excellent models in and of themselves.

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viator: Marian Szymaniak is not Polish, he's German in fact. He's had his name changed to Marian Schahn for a while now.

He's also the owner of kamobo.de
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