Paper & Card Models I Have Built

Paper and card modeling is an economical way to fill a scene with buildings and structures.  Over the last several years I have downloaded and printed over a ream of 110# card stock of which most is still un-built.  Some were for my railroad layouts, others because they were historic, and still others just because I wanted to.  In its simplest form, card modeling is just cut, fold and glue.  The more complex aircraft and ship models require learning to manipulate the paper in ways it does not usually lay.

 

If you are my age (73) you may remember the cereal box models from the 1940's, tabs and slots like the paper dolls the girls had.  In my recent past I tried a little HO scale (1:87) model of an old store.  I trimmed out the windows and doors, had extra trim on the false front and tried adding corner trim, all in card.  After doing a simple roof I added hand cut card shingles, one side old & worn, the other new.

This lower photo shows the old 'worn' shingles.  There is a wood sidewalk attached to the front of the building.  The red strip above the false front is part of a layered addition, common on buildings of that period.

The two building to either side of my store are railroad buildings downloaded from the internet in color.

The large building top left is from Build Your Own Main Street, also in HO scale.

A large wooden trunk is visible to the right  of other familiar structures.

This last scene is taken on the earlier version of my 4'x4' HO layout Camp Swampy.  All the buildings are card models, those inside the circle of track are models of WWII German prisoner of war camp   buildings.  The base of the layout is 1/4" plywood covered with 1" extruded foam as are the hills front and rear.  The trees are from China and bought in bunches of 10.

I hope you have enjoyed this little side trip to another side of me and my modeling interests.  I will close with a list of several sites and forums I visit daily.  I will try to link them for a simple click, but if not working try just searching for the tag line on Google or Yahoo or your choice.


http://railroad-line.com
http://thewhistlepost.com
http://modeltrainsforum.com
http://ModelRailroadForums.com
http://papermodelers.com
http://fiddlersgreen.net


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