Not sure if I'm allowed to post paper models here, but here I go; 1/144 F2G Corsair and F8F Bearcat
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reddit.comPosted May 12, 2023, 9:28 AM UTC
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reddit.comYou 100% are, and those are awesome!!!
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I think any modler is welcome to post here, or should be. Nice work!
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Impressive
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They look really good for a paper model AND 1:144!
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Thai paperwork, my beloved. I've spent hundreds of hours building their stuff. Probably the best balance of detail/ease of assembly of any other paper plane designers.
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They are great. I don't like their glue tabs (even though they're objectively better than attached glue tabs for a bit thicker paper) but that's about my only complaint (they get fiddly quickly at 144 scale)
Also cool that you essentially can always get 1 freebie for every purchase (this Bearcat for example) so you end up paying like 1.50$ per model, that you can print and build as much as you want.
I also do really like the Scissors and Planes models for that scale. Generally if I want to build them in 1:144 the original scale has to be somewhere between 1:200 and 1:100 or it's going to either not look great or it's going to be a major pain in the ass to build.
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dont see why you wouldn't.
as a kid i made a few custom SR71 Blackbirds out of card, just slowly cutting and shaping to get the body profile right. Some of the curvature people get from paper models is astounding. nice work.
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They look great! Nice job :)
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Wow🤯 They look awesome!
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Cool! When I was younger I was building self-designed paper models in 1:200, but yours look way better made than mine :D
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Well self-designed models are a lot harder to actually pull off, these are after all designed by people that know what they're doing, and probably tested.
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That's PAPER?! Wow that's some skilled hands
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Awesome
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Never seen those before. Very cool! Are they glued together or paper tabs style of construction?
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Are they glued together or paper tabs style of construction?
Yes, they are.
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That is so cool!
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Wow cool models . I ran right over to E-card models and bought the F2G collection.
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Have fun with them.
The Scissors and Planes models are pretty buildable from standard 80g/m² paper, but definitely look better when built from 120g/m² (100g may work well too, or even 160g at 1/100 or if you upscale to 1/72).
Just keep pictures of the real plane ready, because they don't come with instructions (I made a small mistake with the cooler on this one, but it turned out looking fine).
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Will do thanks !
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Great job. Glad you posted them.
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Irregardless of the medium, those are a great looking pair of models.
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nicely done!
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These are the best paper models ive ever seen, holy hell good job
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Still modelbuilding right?
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The F2G is from Scissors & Planes 100 Series, the F8F is designed by Thai Paperwork.
I built them from 120g/m² paper. Both models are originally 1/100 designs, but I scaled them down to 1/144 to be in-scale with my plastic model collection.
I honestly mostly started doing these because props in 1/144 are pretty hard to find as model kits.
Cross post to r/papercraft. They need to see this.
Looks like a model to me, so pretty sure it's welcome here.
That's some delicate work. The Bearcat especially looks great
The Bearcat is probably the best looking build I managed to do yet at this scale, from paper, asides maybe the SnP Supermarine Seafang I built, but on that I F'ed up when re-colouring the white edges and kind of ruined the model a bit.
Great job! What paint do you use for the edges? Try mixing tempera paints as close as possible. Take your time with it.
I just used a marker, but I'll probably try using paints that I have anyways (since I'm building plastic models) in the future and see how that turns out.
Do you know of any "Age of Sail" paper models like this? I'm looking for some for a naval wargame.
www.papermodelers.com/forum/ships-watercraft/
If it’s out there, they’ll have it. They’ve got everything.
I do not, as my interest in ships (especially of that time period) is very limited; however a quick search found these that seem to look pretty good and theres some free sample to build.
Glad to see Thai Paperwork is still at it. Did he ever finish his Big Boy locomotive?