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Gothenborg by Popeye the sailor - Billing Boats - 1:100 scale
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Intro to Card Models Pt. V: Building V108 - The Hull
urb replied to ccoyle's topic in Card and Paper Models
Excellent tips. I'm battling with my first model, the card 'San Salvador' from the Maritime Museum, San Diego. I'm coming to the conclusion that I should really regard this first one as the practice, then build once again. It really is enjoyable and less stressful then I think building my 20 + year old still unopened King of the Mississippi will be. Looking forward to the next installment Urb -
I've downloaded the San Salvador, (thanks for the Link). I've printed out 2 booklets, basic and advanced to have a good read. I’ve got to the base hull stage so will start a build log once I have the hull built. I don’t know why I thought ‘card’ would be easy!! But your photos gave me a start. I have just found out that my neighbour built an Artesania Latina HMS Endeavour Kit, he says it took him 13 years to build. I have not seen it yet. It apparently sits in a glass case. Good for him.
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San Salvador free paper model
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I was red hot going to start the King of the Mississippi kit that I’ve had over about 20 years, but unusually for me I decided not to jump in feet first but to have a good read of everything on the site first to see if I could pick up tips from the forums, tutorials, and etcetera. What a mine of information (I have not built anything like this before). I saw the “Built a ship from card? Then discuss it here!” I thought what a sacrilege, paper on a sight like this with such beautiful wooden ships. Anyhow I had told myself I would read everything so on to the “San Salvador free paper model”. As Ian M. says “The beauty is, if anything is messed up just print another sheet.” Excellent, suddenly I felt the pressure released (my Mississippi is un-opened). So I have downloaded everything from that site, all the instructions and plans for both ‘basic’ and ‘advanced’, helpfully card thicknesses are in metric, good for us in the UK. I hope that the hints and tips given will give me a good start and some practical help to getting a start to eventually starting my Mississippi. I see Adrieke has started this build in ‘Kit Build Logs in Progress’ (thanks for the link) so I am looking forward to more tips.
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Hi Remco I'm in the process of converting your .pdf's into .doc (Word 2003) with OmniPage. I hope this is what you wish. I don't know how I'll get them to your site or to you? Someone will advise when I'm finished I'm sure. If you would rather I stopped converting please inform me. I was about to start my first project of 'King of the Mississippi' (a 20 year old kit), but every time I look on this site and see the fantastic stuff being built by professionals (surely) rather then being spurned on to start I find I’m looking for reasons not to. Must break into the packs and once one is opened I’ll be of I'm sure. Kind Regards Urb
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