Christmas Decoration Event

**rickstef** · #1 11-28-2020, 02:16 PM

Hi all,

To kick off the Christmas season, I am proposing a month long event, build anything Christmas related.

It can be funny, or serious, or whatever you are feeling.

You can put it in your tree, or hang it up in your house.

But we want to see all the various types of models.

So from now, to Christmas Eve, December 24, build and show something Christmas

Rick

**Kevin WS** · #2 11-28-2020, 02:44 PM

Great idea!

I am in - with something small but in nevertheless!

**Mike Stamper** · #3 11-28-2020, 03:31 PM

This is a bit of a cheat - I made these for last christmas.

I already had a pad of postcard size patterns and found instructions on Google for making trees.

I am a room guide in a local National Trust property and the house is "made over" for Christmas.

One item is a kids "spotting trail" Kids don't like wandering around old houses and the trail gives them something to do.

They had to look out for small Christmas trees and based on the number of rooms, I made 15plus trees. The picture was sent to the house manager for approval and I added myself as a guide to the height of the trees. In fact the trees are about 3 inches tall.

One of the rooms had a musical theme and the tree was decorated with musical bits in the second picture there are more trees, this time made of music - I tried a few compositions and found that Mozart's music looked the best - the Snow flakes and "star" are also mine

Cheers

**rickstef** · #4 11-28-2020, 04:15 PM

Mike,

Great builds, and a cool idea of a Christmas treasure hunt.

You can post builds from previous years in this thread, but I am looking for current builds in the sub forum >>> http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/c...as-decorating/

I am sorry, I should have included that caveat in the original post.

Rick

**Kevin WS** · #5 11-29-2020, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickstef

You can post builds from previous years in this thread, but I am looking for current builds in the sub forum >>> http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/c...as-decorating/

So last year I did one of AirDaves excellent models - the model has now become yet another quirky Christmas ornament!

I also turned it into a special Christmas Card for a friend - I nipped into the stables and magically turned her horse into a reindeer!

.

Here's the original build thread if you are interested in making the model.

Santa's "Great Idea": Dave's 2019 Christmas Model.

**rickstef** · #6 11-28-2020, 04:33 PM

Here are some ideas from Canon's Creative Park
https://creativepark.canon/en/specia...mas/index.html
https://creativepark.canon/en/specia...day/index.html

**mbauer** · #7 11-28-2020, 05:30 PM

Hi Rick,

Just read about this years builds. Was going to add some of the stuff from years past.

Not sure if I will be adding yet to this year. If I do; will show what is added to my growing display. Really need a Reindeer, the one I have is really complicated to build. Hoping the Cannon Site has something easier this year.

Might use some of this fancy high dollar photo paper I have for a cool looking, simple, easy, colorful project.

At present, tied up with P26 Peashooter project.

@Airdave-are you offering anything on your site or here for download this year?

Mike

**rickstef** · #8 11-28-2020, 05:46 PM

Mike,

You can post pictures of previous years here in this thread, might inspire someone to add to their decorations for this year

**lorenzomartinez07** · #9 11-28-2020, 07:14 PM

I just finished this Santa biplane from Paper Replika, is a gift to my wife who loves christmas.

**mbauer** · #10 11-29-2020, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickstef

Mike,

You can post pictures of previous years here in this thread, might inspire someone to add to their decorations for this year

Great! Will inspire me to get busy on the fix for the last 7.1 Earthquake we had. Dave's Christmas Tree took a nosedive off of a shelf to the floor. The paper center "trunk" got bent, thinking of installing a wood dowel the right size for better support.

Tree really took a beating during the earthquake. Have to re-install the lighting, and decorations, ice cicles were all over the place-, garland ripped loose-yep, first post from me will be re-build of Dave's tree.

Santa's Sleigh was another victim, fell from top of book shelf, book fell on top, smashing runners. Was going to add wire to support but after the metallic paper project, might print new sleigh for the rebuild.

Doug those are some really cool looking builds. Cannon is where I got my Santa and Sleigh. They have awesome stuff all over the place!

Mike