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There Are Two Possible Issues to Address Yellow color changes in paper model can be caused by light reaction and residual acids from manufacturing. Choose an acrylic fixative that is non-yellowing. Blair and Krylon have products to do so but first try them with a test printout to see if...

Supplemental Part Patterns I attach some patterns you may use to make the supplemental parts. With best regards, Tom G.

Clear Cover Case The clear case is 1/8 inch thick plaskolite acrylic sheet. Two side pieces 10.5 inches x 14 inches are solvent welded between two side pieces 10.75 inches x14 inches. A 10.75 inches x 10.75 inches top covers the top edges of the sides. I used methylene chloride sparingly...

Keeping the Trees Three Dimensional Three equal lengths of 16 gauge stranded copper wire are used to make trees. The two larger trees (parts 74 and 75) look like lindens (tilia cordata) with a pyramidal shape cut to a ¾ standard that allow pedestrians to pass underneath them. Start with 5 cm...

So What are Those Strips that Canon Supplies for Short Towers? The prototype metal sculptures are intersecting helical vines with tendrils and fine details like a flag. Copper stranded filament wire wound as a single coil didn’t look right. A double helix reversing direction did look right...

Supplemental Dome Parts - Part II Two sizes of Eastern Orthodox crosses are used with the onion domes. Cross patterns are printed on one layer of 110 lb cardstock. The printed page is glued to two other layers of 110 lb cardstock and allowed to dry before cutting out the individual crosses...

Supplemental Dome Parts At this point, new parts were added to the original pattern to complete the model. Photographs provided inspiration for 3-D approximations. Dome pedestal sections were added for the central and bell towers. Vertical sections without flaring provided satisfactory...

Gold Foil Rings at Onion Dome Bases Gold leaf rings surround the actual onion dome bases. Gold colored wrappers from Reese’s Pieces candies provide ample gold aluminum foil that is easy to glue over the yellow rings in the original Canon pattern.

Central Tower Details The central tower has an outstanding amount of gold detail. The small repeated projections up the side edges would be great to model but I don’t have a convincing simulation. Eight gold ring details can be cut from aluminized Mylar polyester. An empty coffee ground...

Mirror Reprint of Reversed Dome Patterns Photographs indicate the swirling stripe patterns were reversed on two domes. Dome part 11 is reversed and light in color. Two of the eight arms had incomplete stripes as well. A mirror reprint of dome 11 provided replacement arms with a complete...

Onion Domes Assembled with Butt-Joints Onion domes printed on 65 and 110 lb paper card stock frustrated my attempts to assemble them using the integral gluing tabs along the pattern arms. Instead, butt joints between the arms allowed for manageable pattern alignments without twisting...

Recoloring part 4 Roof Flashing The roof flashing on part 4 was reprinted with green to match the prototype. I used 20 lb paper reprint of part 4 to glue over the white annulus of the original part 4 roof flashing.

The Threes I wanted to build the model with as much three-dimensional (3-D) detail as was practical. With few exceptions, the model pattern was assembled to the original Canon instructions up to the tops of the four large onion domes. The original parts were modified to better match...

Starting out construction The paper base area of the US letter size pattern measures 10.5 inches x 9.75 inches x 0.75 inches high. Gluing only the cobblestone pattern pieces to a 10.5 inch x 10.5 inch x 1 inch box of one-quarter inch plywood provides support that resists sagging over time...

Saint Basils on Moscow's Red Square Canon Creative Park released an attractive Saint Basil’s card model pattern by M. Yukishita. The model, as built from the kit plan, provides a convincingly close facsimile of the actual prototype in Moscow. The towers and domes are modeled in octagonal...