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Hello and good afternoon to all paper modelers !! Here following are some new pics of the Admiral Nakhimov model, where I have added all the upper bridge railings, most of the secondary quick-firing guns and some other components of the superstructures. have also modified the upper deck wings...

Hello to all paper modelers !! I last days I have found a bit more spare time from job that I've used to make some progress on Admiral Nakhimov model. So, I have glued the flying bridge, built and positioned the fore and rear guns' towers (I made them both rotating), and started to build the...

Hello and good morning to all paper-modelers worldwide !! In last weeks I made very few steps on the Admiral Nakhimov model, due the fact of a lot of work to do for my job activities (thanks to God... the work hasn't been decreased during the pandemic period). So, because a very few spare...

Good morning to all paper modelers !! The building of Admiral Nakhimov model is going on, constantly but a bit slower than planned (fortunately the job activities are going on in a good way, also in this pandemic moment and there is not so much spare time available for the model like in the...

Hello to all paper-modelers In last days I've just completed a model of american protected cruiser USS MAINE (ACR-1) of 1888 that was famous because his explosion and sunk in the Havana harbor brought at the outbreak of Spanish-American War. The kit has been developed by Heinkel Models with a...

Hi all.. Looking back to old archives, I have found some pics of one of my early paper ship models. Is a 1:250 scale model of Australian breastwork monitor HMVS CERBERUS, launched in 1868 and sunk on 1926. Here you can find some deep information about the ship (from Wikipedia) ...

Nice building, mate !! i'm following this thread with attention.. and I like the actual results ! ciao Jp

Hello... Only card ... absolutely no wood!! Ciao Jp

Hi all paper modelers One of the ship models I'm working on last months is a Dom Bumagi paper kit of the Russian protected cruiser Admiral Nakhimov launched in 1885 and sunk during th Battle of Tsushima on 28 May 1905 More information on this ship at wikipedia page ...

Hello and good morning ! I appreciate a lot all your words about my models... but, please, consider that are absolutely NOT perfect... there are many and many little mistakes done during the building and so, they're very faraway from "perfection".. In any case, I try every time to do all my...

Hello, Zanthros !! Thank you all very much for the welcome !! Just to give an idea of my "past" models (made in traditional and by paper) here are some pics .. They're not all (for example I don't have pics of some sailing ships I built in my early days of ship modeling) but are enough...

Thanks for this warm welcome, Gandolf50... I really hope to get some other ideas looking at the other modeler' models... (sorry for words joke..) Indeed the paper-modeling can be a real challenge, and a great satisfaction for a modeler that can simply "switch" from ship models, to military...

Thanks, Gandolf.. Here some few other pics of the Sachsen model, where rigging can be observed better. The rigging are 0,3 millimetres thin paper stripes cut with a very sharp knife blade and a straight metal ruler (obviously having selected the right paper type both for weight that for...

Hello, I'm JP from Rome, Italy... just registered to this forum. I'm a ship modeler (static models) since I was 20 (now I'm over 50) and until 6-7 years ago I always scratch-builted my ship models using "traditional" materials (wood, metal, plastic, etc..) mainly in scale from 1:75 to 1:100...

Hello to all paper modelers worldwide !! I'm just registered in this forum and I would share with you the pics of one of my last ship paper models. It's an 1:200 scale model of German Ironclad Corvette SMS SACHSEN of 1877 (you can find more information on this ship and about the Sachsen-class...