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Anyone out there build paper/card models? I have a few questions regarding types of glues to use. I am working on a model of King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle that I downloaded from the internet, and will be working on a couple of NASCAR cars that I also found on the net. Any help will be appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Ray === Start here http://bellsouthpwp.net/n/8/n8hfi/card-faq/ > Anyone out there build paper/card models? I have a few questions > regarding types of glues to use. I am working on a model of King [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Ray > === >Anyone out there build paper/card models? I have a few questions >regarding types of glues to use. I am working on a model of King [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Ray >=== still have the url? i love that place. saw it when i was a kid. got to pee in one of mad ludy'd johns. Lately, building nothing but cardmodels. I use "Aleenes Original Tacky glue"... You can find it in most craft/artist supply stores. Wide range of subjects offered in card, and a nice change of pace from other types of modeling.. If interested, I have pictures of some cardmodels here..... http://www.picturetrail.com/eatcrow2 >Anyone out there build paper/card models? I have a few questions >regarding types of glues to use. I am working on a model of King [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Ray >=== You're a virtuoso, Peter...I particularly like you ships. Fine stuff!  Signature- Rufus > Lately, building nothing but cardmodels. I use "Aleenes Original > Tacky glue"... You can find it in most craft/artist supply stores. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> Ray >> === Thanks Rufus...... nice too hear from you again. P.Crow >You're a virtuoso, Peter...I particularly like you ships. Fine stuff! On Jul 25, 6:59 pm, "Ray S. & Nayda Katzaman" <rs...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Anyone out there build paper/card models? I have a few questions > regarding types of glues to use. I am working on a model of King [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Ray > === I use either white glue (for most joints) or gel CA for joints where I want a quick set (ones I have to hold together). I find the most challenging task rolling stock into a tube for cylinders. I never can seem to get a round cylinder. I doubt if you will have many of those in either the castle or a stock car. Also, I keep both scissors and X- acto knife handy. Each is better for certain types of cuts than the other. > On Jul 25, 6:59 pm, "Ray S. & Nayda Katzaman" <rs...@sbcglobal.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > acto knife handy. Each is better for certain types of cuts than the > other. === For cylinders I start with a 3/4 or 1 inch dowel then go to a 1/2 inch and finally to a 1/4 inch dowel. I hold it fast with a rubber band for a few hours and then apply "rubber cement" to the two contact points and hold it with a pair or mini, really mini, clothes pins (they measure about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long). For other curves, like hoods and roofs(spelling?), I place the card stock on a piece of felt cloth and make the curve with a table spoon or a teaspoon. This last technique I figured out thinking of the tools we used in shop making sheet copper graphics, and from one of the Orange County Choppers shows where Jr. was making a gas tank for a custom bike. Of course, there Jr. was using an electric hammer with a piece of leather under the piece of gas tank. My two cents for the hobby. Ray === If you hold card stock between a board and something flat and narrow (like a ruler on edge) and gently pull the card through and slightly up, the card ends up with a curl it didn't have before. Doesn't make the proper cylinder inevitable, but it helps, and it avoids creasing. On Jul 26, 1:19 pm, "Rik Shepherd" <RikSheph...@houseoftheSCAMPERINGorangemonkey.co.uk> wrote: > If you hold card stock between a board and something flat and narrow (like a > ruler on edge) and gently pull the card through and slightly up, the card > ends up with a curl it didn't have before. Doesn't make the proper cylinder > inevitable, but it helps, and it avoids creasing. Yeah, I do that, and also tried to form around a dowel (though one smaller than ID). I still end up with an ellipse or oval. Maybe I should be making internal formers like I do with vacuform models. > On Jul 26, 1:19 pm, "Rik Shepherd" > <RikSheph...@houseoftheSCAMPERINGorangemonkey.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > smaller than ID). I still end up with an ellipse or oval. Maybe I > should be making internal formers like I do with vacuform models. === Here's another solution to the oval cylinders. Once the cylinder is made, cut out three circles of the same diameter and insert one in the middle of the cylinder and one at each end. That should remedy the oval effect. I found this one out while putting together King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle, the instructions on page 5 show the circles already attached to the tower, but I made the circles for the towers that did not bring them attached, and the towers were pretty well cylindrical. Ray === >> On Jul 26, 1:19 pm, "Rik Shepherd" >> <RikSheph...@houseoftheSCAMPERINGorangemonkey.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Ray > === I would think you could also use a draftman's circle template to hold the roll circular as you glue it up - like a guide. Two together could be used as a stand/rest while the glue dries. Signature- Rufus Many thanks to all who responded, very good advice on the glues. And like always, got my fingers glued with the CA gel, it never fails. Again, thanks. Ray === |
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