20t flatcar build request

[3Turner]

In one of the other kits by the designer, he recommended "250g/m paper".

[modelperry]

Originally Posted by 3Turner

In one of the other kits by the designer, he recommended "250g/m paper".

Thanks!

greg

[Diderick A. den Bakker]

A word to the wise: 250 grams is very heavy indeed, unsuitable for most types of paper modelling. 80 is normal printer paper. 160 is usual for paper models; sometimes 120 for really small details.

[modelperry]

Originally Posted by Diderick A. den Bakker

A word to the wise: 250 grams is very heavy indeed, unsuitable for most types of paper modelling. 80 is normal printer paper. 160 is usual for paper models; sometimes 120 for really small details.

After a little while, I actually was thinking that 250 might be too heavy. Also, I was having trouble finding a clearly stated conversion table. I think I will try 67# paper first and go from there.

greg

[SJPONeill]

Originally Posted by Diderick A. den Bakker

A word to the wise: 250 grams is very heavy indeed, unsuitable for most types of paper modelling. 80 is normal printer paper. 160 is usual for paper models; sometimes 120 for really small details.

My thoughts exactly, in this scale and the level of detail, I would have thought something around 110gsm would be more than enough..?

[3Turner]

I think the 250 g/m paper the designer referred to was for the formers of the kit, just wasn't specified. There is not other paper weight mentioned for anything else....for example the skin parts.

[Diderick A. den Bakker]

When I wrote my 'Tutorial for designers' for this forum (see Early SF: tutorial for designers.) I tried to figure out the American paper weight system. It works in points, pounds and square yards... so I gave up. Here in Europe there are three standard weights printing paper readily available: 80 grams/square metre is regular; 120 and 180 are suitable for our purpose. I do not know about weights of photopaper which many people seem to use.
If you want to make sure: I got out my wife's digital kitchen scales and weighed batches of ten sheets. Of course a reasonable letter balance will work just as well. This gave the following results:

My neat excel file did not work here. Attaching it as a picture.

As the difference in surface between A4 and Letter is only 3 %, the difference in weight between them can be safely ignored.

Hope this may serve as a reference chart?

[cgutzmer]

cool! thanks
Chris

[modelperry]

So I printed this one out on 67# paper and think this will be about right. All the parts are printed on one page. There are a poo load of them and almost all of them are small. What have I got myself into.

Guess I will have to sharpen my exacto and get to work.

Since I will inevitably suffer from microscopic part burnout, there is no chance in Hades of an HO scale plane fuselage to go on it.

Greg

[cgutzmer]

take your time