Kartonwerft paper models

[Hammers]

And I need something like this Graf Goetz

You may want to consider this "dampferer" from kartonwerf.de. I got it about a year ago and blew her up frm 1:100 to 1:50 on a xerox. I haven't gotten to laying her out yet but I plan to glue the sheets to carton and add some better detailing than the supplied paper ones.

She, Gowerian, is later and probably has a larger tonnage than the Graf but I think she looks quite the business, pulp games, for the use in. She would certainly work as "The Venture" in a King Kong game.



http://www.kartonwerft.de/katalog.htm

[dominic]

OMG!!!!  
I want that ship!!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I do like it, too!

[Hammers]

Well, lucky you you live in Germany then. It seems to be the promised land of paper models. Well, Poland to. I have a later freighter model from Maty Modelarz which I hope to use as "Karaboudjan"

[Prof.Witchheimer]

that lighthouse is great!

[Hammers]

that lighthouse is great!

It is, isn't it. Shouldn't be impossible to enlarge either and seems fairly easy to build...

...and use with this fine fellow:



What's "Auswandererdenkmal Bremerhaven" by the way?

[Prof.Witchheimer]

What's "Auswandererdenkmal Bremerhaven" by the way?

Auswanderer - emigrant
denkmal - memorial
Bremerhaven - a german city

that is it:

[Prof.Witchheimer]

opened a new topic

[Argonor]

Those ships, etc.: You'd have to get the 1:100 version and print it at about 200%, right? (To get about 1:50, I mean?)

[Hammers]

Correct. And glue the sheets to thicker carton.

I haven't completed the model so I cannot give you any more tips than that. But I can thell you this from browsing various boards that Gowerian is most likely one of the best paper model ships of a steamer arround, esp. if you want to something that looks like "Venture" in King Kong.

[Poliorketes]

This oneis for 28mm
http://www.tin-soldier.com/freighter.htm

[Hammers]

Reviresco tilts towards the toyish, IMO. But they have some very useful things for detailing yourship: guns, portholes etc.

[Hammers]

Those ships, etc.: You'd have to get the 1:100 version and print it at about 200%, right? (To get about 1:50, I mean?)

While preparing this model I realized that I made the mistake of a man of classical education while enlarging it. The sheets come A4 colour print format and enlarginmg them to A3 is NOT the same as enlarging them 200%.

10 years behind the Xerox and still a novice...

[dominic]

I just emailed the people who do the Gowerian ship.
They are willing to enlarge their paper model to 1/60th scale at a total cost of EUR45 to EUR50.

I'm still thinking about it.

What do you guys think?  Is it worth it?

[Hammers]

A bit stiff, in my opinion. What you get for those extra 25 Euro is, what?, the same thickness paper, color print and the right scale.

If you have the intention to build the model "as is" and not paint, weather and detail it it may be worth it but myself I will probably build it in sheet styrene so I just need the print outs as templates. The b/w enlargements on the office xeroxs are tehrefore quite the business.