Hello ladies and gentlemen, some of you may remember me from years ago on this forum, for many others I’m a member never heard of.
Anyway, I’m back with a new built (actually it’s almost finished by now).
Many years ago I started the build for a papermodel of steamlocomotive I never finished (but one day I will still finish it though) but now am building an American icon (well at least in the railway comunity) :
First thing do was the frame onto wich the whole engine will be built :
The wheels are always a challenging part when building a cardboard engine :
The engine has a bogie as well :
And then it was all a matter of adding stuff to the frame :
Well; I have to say, If you can roll a calender you can create wonderful shapes. Now for the shapes in ships I preform the parts with one spritz -Extra Fine, of water and a Hot Spoon. Paper is extremely malleable in the right circumstances. Many of the ships are scaled close enough for 1/350 or 1/192 scale P.E. 1/400 is available for the 1/400 ships.Trains and armor and cars as well as planes are out there. My first plane was a Schreiber D.C.10. Surprisingly it came out perfect! It was in 1/40 scale.
Also if you are stingy with the glue it will go together just fine.Then the trick is to let it dry. It takes longer than a plastic kit. Plus you need to keep extremely sharp blades handy for cutting the laminated parts. That’s where I draw the line. I have had laminated parts dry for a week and when I cut them they twisted out of shape. When you are dealing with 1/400 that’s a no-no.
Beautiful work, I would never guess that model was made with paper and card stock. Is that the same type of locomotive used on The Wild Wild West? If not, it looks very similar.
Joe, this specific engine was one of the two engines involved in the Golden Spike ceremony in 1869 in Utah, where the rails from the Eastern parts of the US were joined with the Western rail.
The Wild Wild West engine was indeed one of the type. They were a rather Generic pattern for the time. Kind of like today where an SD40-2 will be seen in many railroad colors but it’s the same old Diesel-Electric engine.
The basic kit doesn’t come with the thicker (0.5mm and 1mm) cardstock, however I bought the lasercut set for it consisting of most of the 0.5 and 1 mm parts. Although some of the parts in the lasercut set needed to be done over because they were lasered on the wrong thickness.
I used the Lazer-cut parts for the Andrea Doria. Now I will say this about that. Very nicely done BUT, they did not leave a note stating where on the backbone the Ribs accurately located. So my ship is an inch short.
This required taking and modifying where it wouldn’t be noticed, all the way up to the Stack level! Most folks wouldn’t notice it, But it is what it is. As it turns out The Lazer-Cut Frames were ALL supposed to be mounted Behind the lines, starting from the bow. Not spaced like the Thin Card frames were. From the center of the ship to both ends.
What a coincidence that you ask, T-B, as a matter of fact this afternoon I was going to work on the tinder… errr, tender but got side tracked because my wife asked me the same question.
And indeed, even though there are no parts in the kit to make tracks, it is however shown how to do so.
So I decided to experiment on that instead of the tender…
First thing to do was to cut enough strips in three different sizes ; 7mm (for the base), 3mm (for the vertical part of the rail) and 5mm (for the top of the rail).
All these parts together gave me this :
And a close-up with one of the rails already started to be shaped (first I generously applied CA on the carboard to make it more sandeable).
Is one incredible job. With that display you’ll knock them dead at a Train Show! My Museum/Club members don’t believe that paper can really tell the “Story of the Rails”, that kit just proves them wrong. Might I ask what brand that kit is? I would like to obtain one myself!
Guess what though? She’s come together with the adjustments so well that nobody notices! That is the beauty of modeling. With other folks reaction I am absolutely happy with the way she turned out. The Stockholm turned out great too, and there no parts like that mentioned in the catalogue for her.
Now it’s kinda hard to get back to the “Rio”, I fell off the wagon and am kinda taking a mental break I guess. It’s staring at me though, sending the message" Finish me willya, Already?"
