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In one of the other kits by the designer, he recommended "250g/m paper".
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Thanks! greg
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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.
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My thoughts exactly, in this scale and the level of detail, I would have thought something around 110gsm would be more than enough..?
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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.
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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? Last edited by Diderick A. den Bakker; 05-30-2013 at 02:58 AM. |
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cool! thanks
Chris
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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
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take your time
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