J_Man wrote:
I've actually made a couple. I have a Voyager satellite that I made from heavy cardstock paper that came out the best. The way I went at it is handled it like it was a wood project using fine grit sandpaper. I used an epoxy glue that dried as fast as superglue but was thick like a gel. I imagine you could just use superglue gel. I tried to be light on what I sanded and only did so if the seam wasn't what I wanted it to be. Whatever messes up though, you can easily paint over to fix it. Hit the whole model with a nice satin clear coat afterwards and you should end up with a decent looking model.
It seems like for a lot of models, you'd have to make a hundred tiny, intricate folds of the paper? Are there clear instructions at least?
Some of the paper models out there
look amazing on the website, and provide 1:18 vehicles we'd probably never see otherwise, and it seems like using cardstock would give a fairly sturdy result...but I'm worried that actual results would suck for somebody who can't make all those tiny folds just right.
