Any on produce a 28mil Vietnam hovercraft?

[The-closet-gamer]

A friend of mine wants to ask if any one does a US hovercraft as he's looked online and can't find anything. What's stated this of is from me tidying up last weekend and finding a 1/35 resin hovercraft in the cupboard that I bought a few years back but never got round to building. Now you know why I'm called the closet gamer cause stuff just ends up chucked in the closet. I'm not going to hold my breath on this one as I'm guessing the answer is no so it'll have to end up being a scratch build job.

[cataphractarius]

A possibility for downscaling from 1/35 might be this:

http://www.ecardmodels.com/index.php/1-35-bell-aerosystems-patrol-air-cushion-vehicle-paper-model.html

I'm considering getting one for a 20mm project.

[The-closet-gamer]

A very good idea.  It would just need to be scanned and then reduced and printed off. I'm not sure how structurally sound it would be? As a pre printed card kit it's made of paper/card that designed to be handled so will we need to replace the printer paper with something a little more robust? But for 20mil cause of the size it shouldn't be as flimsy. 

[cataphractarius]

Actually, this is a download model - so you essentially buy a pdf that you can then print out pretty much any size you want (well, provided your printer can handle it of course). So no need for scanning, and downsizing is just a matter of adjusting the print size.

One method I have followed in the past when 'transfering' paper kits to more sturdy media is glueing the structural pieces that you invariably get (that's those that go inside and won't be seen once it's finished) onto heavy cardstock or plastic sheet. With fairly simple shapes that works well. The problem here of course is it's not an quite so simple shape...