Hi !
I am pleased that our I.P.M.S. chapter is now using a category for Paper Models . I will have two ships at the show on the 20th of this month .
I will keep you posted on the size of the category and how many actually entered something . T.B.
I’ve seen paper models do well at shows/meets even without a seperate category. I have been aced by them several times. I remember a cruiser that people just did not believe was paper/card.
Yes, there is a guy in our Chapter who is a paperhead. He brings in all sorts of fantastic paper builds.
For both you and Don ;
We paperheads do have one advantage . When I was doing an inventory for insurance I learned something amazing . I have 764 ships and 44 planes . All in two desk drawers !
Most of the ships are in 1/250 and many in 1/200 . The planes are about1/50 or 1/24 !
I could get rid of all my plastic and still have plenty to build . That is except for Cars and Armor . Most of the good Cars and Armor are either plastic or Resin .Not much to crow about in paper in those categories . T.B.
I really appreciated the change, a number of years ago, when IPMS dropped the plastic content rule. I do a lot of scratch building, and always chose my materials based on what material was best for each part, so all my scratch models were multi-media.
My favorite scratch material is wood. I began modeling in the BP days (before plastic) when solid models (the term at that time for non-flying scale models) were made of wood. The kits usually included the fuselage sawn to profile, and some even sawn to planform too. Only a few really deluxe kits had machine carved fuselages carved to section also.
As far as paper, anyone remember the Joe Ott kits, that had pine stripwood, with die-cut cardboard for ribs and fuselage formers? There was another line of kits, forget the brand, where you laminated fuselage and wings from die-cut thick cardboard. You then painted it with several coats of thinned shellac to harden surfaces so you could sand the steps away.
TB - right, the paper models are really compact when unbuilt 
But I can’t agree with you on the armor builds - the Polish companies such as GPM, Fly model, and others can get you beautiful tanks in 1:25, some of them even with intrerior!
Don - In the eighties in Poland we have had a shortage of almost everything, plastic models included. That’s when paper modelling developed, too, but in my school there was a modelling club where people made aircraft models from wood. Somehow I didn’t take part then, but in the late nineties the school made an exhibition of those old builds, and they were impressive. Most of them unpainted - shortage of everything - but the amount of work and skill that went in those models was really something!
Thanks for reading and have a nice day
Paweł
Well , Hello Young Fella !
I don’t know if you are aware .There is No jobber ( Wholesaler ) of paper-kits in the U.S. anymore , that I know of . So news of these big fellas never reached me . Must be pricy too !
I can’t imagine a " Paper’ (sic )" King Tiger " that size . T.B.
Hello TB!
You can check this out:
http://www.halinski.com.pl/indexgb.php?link=3
That Bergepanther has interior, under sets there is a Tiger with interior, and you definitely might want to check under ships!
Good luck with your builds and have a nice day
Paweł
Two years ago a 1:200, I think, IJN Fuso out of paper won best in show at the Butch O’Hare show. It was unbelievable, detailed, inside and out. I had the honor to judge it, and it was loose on the stand. I bumped the table and it shifted and without thinking, I set it straight. It weighed absolutely nothing. It only took about 5000 hours according to the modeler. Wow. Pictures below.
John
Whoa. That is seriously impressive. I had no idea this could be done. I need to rethink my world a little.
Yeah!
Polish paper models at their best!
Good luck with your builds and have a nice day
Paweł