Hear, hear, Greg,
Good work - keep the paper banner flying high!
Greg - I agree with what you´ve said so far and you are absolutely right, the paper medium does not have to compete with the styrene medium - they are just two different, equally good, creative techniques for achieving a desired artistic goal.
Which you have proven with all the fine pictures of card models. Btw, here´s another gallery link, to Swinger/Lukasz´finely detailed paper Fokker E.III 'Eindecker' - a piece of artistry, in 1:50 scale, which I admire very much:
http://www.kartonwork.pl/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=71
-just look at that tiny Oberursel rotary engine (the cylinders), or the control panel, or the Spandau machine gun . . .
The interesting thing I´m just beginning to discover myself, as I also sometimes work with larger R/C models in balsa & ply, is that you can sometimes 'merge', overlap or 'blend' different techniques in a model - wood, paper, plastic, celluloid or metal foil (e.g. aluminium duct tape) or perhaps even foam - to get just the effect you want.
I know that some 'purists' will not agree with this - fine with me.
Chaque´un a son gout!
Being an allmost full-time card modeller, I respect very much the amazing work that skillful plastic modellers can achieve with layers of delicate spray paint and weathering. I went to one of my first IPMS shows here in Stockholm this summer and I was truly amazed; there were planes, ships, figures, animals, spaceships and large sceneries and dioramas that made me think of the kind of detail you can see in the 'bigature' set models created for "The Lord of The Rings" films but on a much smaller scale.
And of course, to achieve realistic spheres, a card modeller will have to work a little harder and apply 'wet' or card layering techniques - but it can be done.
These IPMS blokes were really very nice to me - they gave me a long table, where I could display all my card aeroplane and space models and inform the competitors and the public about the rapid growing interest in serious card scale modelling.
In addition, with the refinement of the latest ink jet printers (in all sizes) there is no end to what you can achieve in paper and card.
And, you know what? There are thousands of models out there on the Web for FREE! They DO actually give other media "a run for its money"
It would be very nice with a card modelling section at this Forum. And I will certainly read and try to pick up the latest techniques involved in plastic scale modelling - I have a lot to learn in this field. I haven´t built plastic models since I was in my teens.
Thanks, fellas, for keeping an open mind.
Best,
Bengt
in Stockholm, Sweden
Linear Mode
