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Paper Kit Modelling
Andreas Mank
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Why Paper Kits?
• Cost effective alternative to plastic kits, in
particular for back ground models
• Availability of unique models, in particular of
specific prototypesspecific prototypes
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The Crossing Tower (HO-Scale)
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Quick and Dirty
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Suppliers
• Paper Kits have been around for a long time.
• For North America, a relatively new trend to bring out high quality paper kits for Model Railroad applications. See for example MR Railroad applications. See for example MR September 2009, page 62
• British Modellers have enjoyed Card Stock Kits for some time, one example is the Metcalfe I bought as a background model
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Photorealistic Kits
• A new trend is take high resolution images of
real buildings and create Paper Kits from
these. Examples can be seen in the kits from
Stipp, marketed by Auhagen in Germany. Stipp, marketed by Auhagen in Germany.
While these kits are based on German
prototype, I have seen similar kits for North
American Prototype on the Web.
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Do-it-Yourself
• Another relatively new trend is to design your
own buildings using a suitable software
package and to print them on the thicker
paper required for assembling a structure (See paper required for assembling a structure (See
for example NMRA Magazine April 2011, page
36)
• There are also sources of free models on the
Web
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Some Internet Resources• Card Modelling FAQ
– www.cardfaq.org/faq/
• Clever Models
– http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/
• Scalescenes.com
– www.scalescenes.com
• Paper Creek Model Works• Paper Creek Model Works
– www.papercreek.com
• Bill Jones (Grain Elevator)
– http://billjones_9.tripod.com
• 3DK
– www.3dk.ca/index.html
• Paper Models International (Oregon)
– www.papermodels.net/
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Creating the 3D look
• Older Kits gave an impression of 3
dimensionality by using really thick card stock
(example: Metcalfe)
• A variation of this idea is to laser engrave • A variation of this idea is to laser engrave
structure into a thick card stock (see example
kit from Moebo in Germany) These type of
kits are best compared with laser cut wood
buildings in the North American market. (price
wise, too)
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Creating the 3-D look
• Another way of achieving a 3-D look is to work
in layers:
– Cut out windows and glue in from behind,
sometimes with a spacersometimes with a spacer
– Cut out extra window frames on glue on from the
front
– Prepare battens and siding edge covers seperately
and glue on top
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Enhancing your kit
• Use Actate and / or window castings to replace the paper windows.
• Add scatchbuild components, for example use wood to replace the outside walkway on the wood to replace the outside walkway on the Tower
• Combine parts from different kits. For example, I am using a scaled down version of the O-scale walkway/deck on one of my HO-scale Towers
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Tools
• Cutting surface – Glass or Cutting board
• Sharp knife (X-acto or similar)
– Spare Blades
• Straight edge (to guide the cuts)• Straight edge (to guide the cuts)
• Elmers Glue
• Toothpicks
• Felt Pen in a dark colour, preferably gray, brown or dark green
• Weights, Clamps
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Process
• Cutting
– Fresh Blades, change blades as soon as you notice
fraying
– Think about how to do it– Think about how to do it
• Remember to score and fold small parts before cutting
them out
• Leave support material on small pieces
• Check that all the required fold tabs are available
• Check that the tabs do not overlap
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Cutting
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Think about how to cut (not)
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Think about how to cut (better)
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Score and fold small parts before
cutting
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Leave support for small parts
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Ensure sufficient tabs are available
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Fold Tabs overlap
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Fold Tabs cut back
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Process
• Colouring the edges
• Scoring
– Score from the back
– Watch the to bend direction when scoring– Watch the to bend direction when scoring
• Railing Assembly
• Choice of glue
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Folding edges stand out
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Here I tried scoring from behind to
preserve the printed surface
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Cut out extra parts to glue behind
openings for 3D effect
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Colour the excess material
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Windows and doors have been glued
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Add the frames
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It does become 3 dimensional
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My first attempt at a roof
• Forgot to colour the edges
• Tabs overlap
• Difficult to fold
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My second attempt
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My second attempt
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Platform Assembly• Fold Stairs and glue
• Cut out platform, but leave tabs to help assembly
• Colour platform from below and edges
• Colour edges of stairs
• Glue stairs to wall support beam
• Once dry, glue wall support beam to platform. Pay attention,
the folded end goes to the inside of the platform
• Fold railing, cut out and colour edges and back
• Glue second layer to railing
• Glue railing to platform
• Glue platform assembly to tower
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The railing, coloured from the back
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Stair assembly
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Stair assembly
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Stair assembly
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Different style from the O-Scale kit
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Process
• Thin prints - glue to thicker paper of card
board
• Larger buildings – re-enforce the walls
• Apply glue to printed surface, soaks up too • Apply glue to printed surface, soaks up too
quickly otherwise
• Choice of glue
– White Glue
– Perfect Paper Adhesive (Michaels) – not water
activated
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The Crossing Tower (HO-Scale)
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Have Fun!