GEEDUBBYA

special note: the photo below is a link to the cardmodel website an is active, meaning the phot changes when the site changes the photo, so the model you may see might noy be the F 15 Eagle.


Howdy Guys,

Ashrunner, the "Picture of the week" moderator over at www.cardmodels.net has just posted a photo of an F 15 eagle Cardmodel. In as much as he just posted it, I have no info on the builder, but notice the weathering on the model:


Drop by and check out this model and others in the members galleries.

Have a good day,

Greg aka GW

wonwinglo

Super model Greg,the nose cone is very neatly made up.
You have quite a production line going there,but that is the way to do things as waiting for paint and adhesives to dry wastes a lot of time,this way you can jump from one model to another.

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Nigel.D

Please Please Please dont think im disparaging or making light of card models !!! I have seen some of Gregs Posts and they are really really impressive But i have tried some and maybe im in the minority but i cant get on with them ! I supose its that they are already (painted weathered and marked) that i find hard to deal with !!! I loved the buildings I suppose because they are not available as a plastic kit ! Greg your a star for introducing this new medium !! but i guess i just like plastic (I cant get on with balsa as well) or maybe its that the only way to get a compound curve is to mould it !!! I dont know ! I love looking at the models but it just makes me wish they were in plastic !!!! (Sits still awaiting disagreements)

Bunkerbarge

I guess Nigel it is like a lot of areas of modelling to most of us, we all have our own preferences of modelling media and type but we can all appreciate the other areas of the hobby.

I personally have never been into card modelling and it doesn't really appeal to me but I can still enjoy looking at the finished article that others have made.

I once saw a model of the Prinz Eugen in card and it was absolutely superb but it didn't tempt me into wanting to try

I think that is one of the great strengths of this forum, we all have our own individual areas of expertise but we can appreciate others.

There are always those really interesting projects though that use more than one media. That is what I have found so absorbing with the model boat world, I am playing with model engineering in the steam plant, working with plastcs, wood, white metal and all sorts of other stuff and it is great to be able to combine these into one model.

You find a lot of boats are either very good on the detail front and a bit unreliable technically or superb from a mechanical point of veiw and a bit weak as a model so I like to think that I can put something together that crosses many boundaries.

I also thoroughly enjoyed the U-Boat which was a purely plastic experience that I hadn't had for a few years!!

rjwood_uk

apart from the p/e, the wooden deck and the flag :P

Bunkerbarge

Another exercise in mixed media!

wonwinglo

Many years ago I entered a Junkers Ju.88 Mistal into a local IPMS competition,it won,however that is not the end of the story,during the teabreak someone asked me what the mounting posts for the FW.190 were made from ? I said wire,in horror he fled the room and reported me to the Camp Commadant,the said Commadant summoned me to behind the kitchen where he was making the tea,you are immediately disqualified he said clicking his heels,you will pay for this ! in disbelief I left that day never to return to another IPMS meeting for some 20 years by which time white metal propellers,etched brass parts,resin mouldings had entered the scene and were widely used,we even now have mixed media kits that are snapped up at high prices,I know that Nigel has had similar experiences along my lines so I am not alone in this thinking.
When I build in card,sometimes I use balsa spars,make cockpits from vac formed parts and generally make the most of the most suitable material to do the best job,that is why I cannot understand why someone will assemble umpteen thousand matchsticks to make up one windmill sail !? why not make it like the real thing from several laths ?
What I am really saying is that I am not a purist,and never will be,as long as the end result looks good then I will use it,sorry if I have upset the diehard purists but that is the way that I personally make my models,every one to their own,if the material works then use it by all means.
That to me is the fun of model building,seeing what has its very best uses to produce the shape.

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GEEDUBBYA

Howdy guys,

I just wanted to make sure that Ya'll knew that was not my model of the F 15. This Model was constructed by "Fluthecrank". It is a 1:32 scale model produced by Dr Zarkhov over at http://www.card-models.com/ .
This is one of the best F 15's I have seen as far as detail, but then again, Dr Zarkhov is known for the detail in his model kits.
Now ya'll see what I mean when I say "You can't tell them from plastic until you pick them up".
Stop by Dr Z's website and look over his selection of models and you will see just how detailed paper can be.

EDIT: Howdy again guys, I just re read some of the posts in this thread and I want to say that like wonwinglow, I am not a purist either, in papercard or in plastic. My "bread tie twist" antennae and fishing line for guywires and hydraulic lines on both paper and plastic are sure giveaways that I will use what works for me.
As for not building in card because you cant "get into it", there is nothing wrong with that, I dont build in balsa, but I still like to look. lol.
I majored in commercial art/advertising in school and I instead of sitting behind a desk somewhere doing that type work, I followed m grandfathers trade and became a machinist. But before that I was a carpenter, before that I was in school building things from clay in art class as well as drawing and painting and sketching. The way I look at it is that I have worked in different mediums until I am ready to move onto another one ie.... sketch lead to drawing which lead to painting which lead to sculpting which lead to woodwork which lead to metal work. In my mind its all a natural progression, to others there are those who think "why doesn't he stick with one thing?"
To those people, I would only say that "variety IS the spice of life".
and trying something different doesnt mean giving up something else. But when you try something different, you gain an appreciation for others work in that field.
Ok, I have rambled on enough and I just got back from physical therapy for my neck so I am hurting. I will be back on abit later.





Have a godd day,

Greg aka GW

Bunkerbarge

That's about it Barry. Why stick to a single media when we have everything at our disposal.

People who only use one material and insist that others can only do the same are really sad and missing the point as far as I can see it.

On my model boat I have metal bottlescrews fitted to metal shackles and eyes fixed to a varnished wooden deck. Attached to these are rigging made of real cord. What could be more realistic? No matter how good you are you cannot paint a surface and have it look exactly the same as varnished wood.

I have just been putting together the insides of the bridge and I wanted to make a flag locker. All bridges have one and in old steam coasters they were usually in the wheelhouse so are an important part of the detailing work.

Anyway I made the pidgeon holes from stripwood and varnished the unit. I found a signal flag website and downloaded thier sample page, printed it off on plain paper, painted the flags with matt varnish, cut them out, folded them and put them into my locker. I guess that makes me a paper modeller!!

My point is use whatever means you have at your disposal to obtain the best effect you can.

When I used to put together my Airfix planes all those years ago I always made the radio antenna out of real hair as it was nice and fine and I had not discovered stretched sprue. (That was when I had an abundance of antenna's on my head!) Would that not have been allowed by IPMS rules?

Bunkerbarge

Greg, with a model like that is the weathering added afterwards with paint or is that also pre-printed on the card?