Using a card-kit to ¨scratchbuild¨ a ship?

[ubjs]

If I would like to build myself a model of, say, Victory in 1:48 scale, I can then start from Shipyard's Victory kit in 1:96?
I understand that I have to take into account the different thicknesses of the materials if, for example, I build the hull in wood and the rest in cardboard.

[John Fox III]

Greetings,

Assuming the kit is a card model kit, then I would guess you could scan the pages and increase their size to meet the scale you desire.  And use the results to make the various parts out of whatever material you wish.

Anchor's A Weigh!

John Fox III

[bruce d]

The Society of Model Shipwrights has a video online discussing making a wooden model from a paper kit:

 

[Mr Pleasant]

I'm doing this for the HMS Enterprise using the Shipyard card model kit.  Have upscaled from 1:96 to 1:64 and I'm just building a rough prototype to work out the stern and bow areas.....watch this space, build log coming in the New Year once I've worked through some of the issues in relation to converting this to a wood model as to what is provided in the paper plans 

[GrandpaPhil]

It would be functionally no different than building from the plans for a kit.  You would just have to adjust thicknesses.