YES!!!!
The moderators/Admins have written in my member title the caption: Cardboard Yum!. :wub: :wub: :wub:
I Thank you very much, and to celebrate it, I started this Thread. B) :cheers:
I also want to celebrate the arrival of young Matej, brother cardmodeler. :cheers:
This one's for you too, pal!!!! :D
Enjoy!
Rafa
First off in the parade are a couple X-32 I modeled when the X-32 was only an artistic impression:
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Then, A couple YF-22 and one F/A22:
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Followed by three F-19(?) Ghosts
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And Two Classics from Korean War Vintage:
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Two Idontknowwhat, but cool enough to make the couple:
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My rendition of the Chinese J-XX. Sorry, I had no underside references
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Another invention, this time more russkyi:
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Scifi Dropship from toposolitario.com
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A rendition of the stealth airplane form the movie and a bluish invention:
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My version of an F-35 and a Japanese fictional F-3:
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A version of Stavatti's SM-47 Machete:
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Landlubbers:
Two early versions of FCS new-gen combat vehicles
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My armed Hummers:
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A small eggbeater (sans beater!):
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A group of Brazilian Urutus:
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A pair of LAV-25
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I hope you enjoy Them. Cardboard, Yum!!!
WOW!!!
I falled in love with your JSF proposals, J-XX and Hummers. But X-32 rules them all!! :wub: :wub: :wub:
Also F-35 and F-3 are marvellous...
"Idontknowwhat" reminds me Lockheed AH-56 Cheyene.
Thank you, Matej, I wanted to share.
The Idontknowwhat is, in effect a failed attempt at a cheyenne. Glad you noticed!!
Its our artists licence to modify them a bit to look much cool ;)
Why, Of Course, and is too much fun to do!!!
The Hummers and almost all of them are cut and built largely from profiles. This are my only surviving cardmodels. But since I returned to modeling, I have integrated, Plastic, resin, plaster, cardboard, and other bits of junk in my builds.
The X-32 are ones of my favorites, too
Rafa
WOW Rafa, those are really nice! :wub:
My favorites are the chinese J-XX :wub: and F-22 and F-32
Edit: that tiny eggbeater is nice, but needs rotors though :wub:
QuoteThis are my only surviving cardmodels.
What other did you made from paper? These models are simply great!
PS: I had a simmilar attempt to make RAH-66, but it went on different way. I will post photos soon.
Hola Matej!!
I had (That I remember):
Yak-38
RF-X stealth Flying wing (from a Karlo Kopp publication)
More F-22s
Mig-29
Su-27
Su-37
F-117
RAH-66 Comanche
Mini-Fighter (the one in Airborne Aircraft Carrier 747 Concept)
J-10/Lavi (more or less)
X-31
A-109
...And a few others that don't come to mind in this moment. All destroyed by the cleaning lady, little cousins....and my dogs.
Sad, sad Rafa :(
Hi Rafa
so your good with a camera as well as card, you have some of those aircraft models posed beautify, you can almost hear the engines roar :D
Many thanks for sharing
Steve
:cheers:
Hola Rafa,
'Cardboard Yum!' rules eh?
Most excellent interpretations of such a diverse variety of subjects!
Saludos Amigo
John
Rafa, too bad you dont live in denmark! Youve got no idea how many kiloes of paper and cardboard we receive every month! About 20 kiloes of each! Just from a normal household!
Thanks, Steve!!! I am a crappy photographer. Maybe the camera wanted to celebrate too!!! B)
My dear Mav: I would like to have the rest of my old builds still alive. But you are right on the money: Cardboard (Cardboad, Yum!!!) Rules!
B777LR: Your comment made my mouth froth. YOU LIVE IN PARADISE!!!!
Thank you
Rafa
Cardboard Yum indeed!!!!! I love the splinter F/A-22 & the Chinese J-XX especially, but all are good. Rafa, I know some of the models are your own creation but do you get some from printed sources?
Hola Mossie!! Thank you!!
Yes. I have some preprinted, standard models. Mainly free Internet downloads. Lots and lots of them in the 'net. But I enjoy the most when I'm scratchbuilding. The dropship, movie stealth and the mustang are standard colored (though I print them in B/w) downloaded models.
Thank you for sharing
Rafa
Rafa those are some truly amazing works of art you've created! I'm particularly impressed with your wonderful variety of camo schemes. I am very inspired by them!
This is also the first time I think I've ever seen an F-86 made from cardboard. I am just amazed and astounded at what you can do.
Definately Cardboard Yum!
Brian da Basher
Dang, Raf! Those are some nice builds!
Too bad the actual tracked FCS doesn't look like your renditions. They'd look less silly (that's about the only way I can describe the latest ones...).
:cheers: :cheers:
I also liked the F-86.
Remember, it was in one of those that the sound barrier was first broken over Venezuelan skies (Aragua to be exact). B)
Rafa, you are tempting me to give up styrene and start using cardboard! Some really fun work you've done there. Too many cool ones to pick a favorite that's for sure :)
Productive, imaginative camarade! Awesome work you did... :o
Thank you, gents!!!
I can't even start to tell you how much fun it is!!! :wub: :wub: :wub:
Gracias
Rafa
I like your models. And I am thinking it as a way to make mocks...
BTW: Your Mustang is almost perfect and I think it was not easy.
:wub: :wub: :wub:
Rafa? Did you know that the Sharu civilisation started in the Rafa system? That is, in star wars :lol:
PSSssst.- Don't tell anyone. I come from there. B)
Rafa :lol:
Rafael, those LAV-25s are masterpieces!
I'm not worthy...
Marko
Thanks Marko!!!
I really price them much, too. They were my first time developing a 3D model from profiles. They were easy to do because of the boxy shape, but the trick was in the front glacis, wich has a funny shape. The supporting interior structure is a rectangular box to wich the wheels (made from styrofoam) are glued. The Turrets are 1 piece of corrugated cardboard. They were cut longitudinally to insert the gun and its supporting rod into one of the sinuosities of the cardboard, achieving swivelling action.
Thanks for sharing,
Rafa
I actually tried to make a paper/cardboard model once, a B-58 Hustler I downloaded from somewhere but I lost nerves in the first five minutes. So, back to styrene, resin and photoetch for me.
I still have that Hustler stashed somewhere on my HDD, together with some Space shuttles and SMS Rhein, old German monitor...
Yeah, I tried a few printed ones when I was a kid, a SR-71 & a Chieftan Tank. I managed both of them, but I wouldn't say I did a good job of either. It's more intricate than I thought, getting curves can be a problem & using the right amount of glue to stick the thing together without turning the card to mush, then trying not to get glue on every surface other than the one your sticking.
There's good ones here & a ice variety, including a load of X-Planes, although you have to pay for these (but very little). Might try one when I have some spare time.
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/ (http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/)
Yes, They are difficult to make.
I really have a great admiration and respect not only to cardmodelers, of wich there are real masters who put my works to shame, but of the designers, who make the unfolding/folding act of creating a model ready for assembly.
I'm not one of those modelers. My approach is and has always been to analyze and do things the easier way possible (In a past life, I was a Systems Analyst for 20+ years), and if there is something I hate is to do things the hard way (at least for fun).
So I scratchbuild with cardboard (Cardboard, Yum!!!) because is cheap, comes from an abundant supply, and can be printed as much as you need it. The "secret" to my scratchbuilding is the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) approach, wich renders good results, if you're not trying to achieve superdetailed models. And it involves much study in the opposite way of designers. Take, for example the LAVs Gervasius liked so much. There is a Czheck model that is perfection embodied, but I don't have the time, nor the patience to do it, So I went and downloaded some profiles and dismembered them in pieces easy to glue together and, Voilá, there's your APC!!!
So much fun, I can't describe it!!
Thanks
Rafa
Rafa has encouraged me to dig out an old paper build of mine... some old cardboard AH-64 thats only been cut out :rolleyes:
:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
Go, B777LR, Go!!!!
You can do it!!!
I can't wait to see it. My recommendation: Patience.
Rafa
I have already done main rotor!
Go, B777LR, Go!!!!
If you be successfull, you will receive the licence signed by Rafa and me ;) :P
Yay! Did a quick humvee i found on the internet! Very fun! The Apache is roughly 75 % done!
Standing in line at the local hobby store today, I glanced over and saw a rack of origami kits.
Got dizzy just thinking about them.
You card-modelers impress the heck out of me!
Rafa my friend, our cardboard models look better then the plastic ones.
my favorite has got to be the UCAV EDI from stealth.
you treuly are the king of cardboard, keep it up B)
:wub:
The UK Card Modellers always have a stand at the Milton Keynes show and I must admit to being tempted in the past - well this year I have taken the plunge and ordered a Russian pre-Dreadnaught warship. Should be fun :blink:
See here for the site
clicky (http://www.papershipwright.co.uk/index.html)
My Hummvee!
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My yet to be completed AH-64!
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BRAVOOOOO!!!! :wub: :wub: :wub:
Thank U
Rafa
As promised...
Yay! I passed the exams!
Heres a few free models:
http://www.currell.net/models/concorde.htm (http://www.currell.net/models/concorde.htm)
http://www.currell.net/models/r101.htm (http://www.currell.net/models/r101.htm)
http://www.currell.net/models/ss1.htm (http://www.currell.net/models/ss1.htm)
http://www.currell.net/models/ironclad.htm (http://www.currell.net/models/ironclad.htm)
http://www.currell.net/models/v1.htm (http://www.currell.net/models/v1.htm)