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Cockpit and Final details With the bulk of the fuselage, the wings and stabilizer done all that's left for the gear up version of this kit is the cockpit and a few surface details. I didn't take a lot of pictures of the other details, and the few I did take were slightly out...

On to the wings With the fuselage three quarters complete you move on to the wings. The formers are brilliantly designed. Simple but very effective. Once the wing is ready the engine is assembled then glued in place. And with the engine installed a few surface details...

A few months ago some people I know asked if I would make a model as a birthday gift for a friend of theirs. After a brief discussion we decided on a British Airways Concorde (their friend lives in England). Naturally I chose the excellent Concorde kit by Ralph Currell and Erik Te Groen. As this...

Uploaded Boy am I lame! I ran across this thread while browsing around and realized I never did upload the pattern like I promised. I've now corrected that error and uploaded the file to the downloads section here. It will be available as soon as the moderators approve it. Regards, Steve

Progress? Hey PaperAir, Any further progress on this fabulous project? Steve

Egads! It's hard to believe it's been almost a month since I made my last post. I haven't even touched the Normandy in that time, and I'm close to not making the deadline for that Concorde people are going to pay me for. I keep thinking "things will slow down after this week", but so far they...

Sweet. It looks great. I haven't had the proper combination of time and energy for modelling lately, but I will soon. And there's plenty of inspiration around lately. Steve

Which one? Which one did you build? I'd love to see pictures. I plan on doing the Crested Tit next. Steve

We had one of those in the yard just yesterday morning. Beautiful birds. Would make a great model. Hmmmmmmm......... Steve

At this point I don't plan on releasing the PDO file. I've pretty much settled on a combination approach. I'll just do whatever I need to to explain or illustrate what has to be done. A member over at PM made a timely post recently with a lot of good ideas, several of which I'll try to...

Your welcome. I'm glad you found it. I had much the same reaction and as soon as I saw it (a few years ago) I knew I'd try one sooner rather than later. Everyone that's seen it has really liked it. Last week I was looking at it and wondering what to do with it when I remembered that the local...

That is awesome! I can now dream of having my own work be famous for a few seconds, knowing that it has happened before. Congratulations Wojtee. Steve

Wow! It looks great. The canopy turned out better than I expected. You've really captured the vehicle, and even now it still kind of looks like something from the future Great work. I look forward to seeing more of your projects. Steve

Szdfan, some good cross-clamp type tweezers are extremely valuable at this small scale too. The kind that you squeeze to open, and when you release they close. You can grip and hold very small parts more easily, use the tweezers to hold one part in place while you glue another part to it, or...

Thanks Papermodelfan. Your work looks ecellent. I hope to see a picture of the completed model soon. Cheers, Steve

I agree!

It depends what your "normal" copy paper is. Many use a 20lb all-purpose paper which would be too light in my opinion. If I get something printed at Staples their normal paper is a high quality 28 lb paper which might work for modeling. I've had excellent results with a 32lb cardstock I bought...

Looks great Papermodelfan - I look forward to seeing it built. I'm amazed at how quickly you produced that. Can you tell me how you do that lighting effect on your drawings? Steve

It's certainly doable in Pepakura and I have done this on other develpments. It's not foolproof though as sometimes the fold line doesn't go all the way through a part. Are you referring to coloring the actual fold lines on the part, or the same idea as nosports above? I don't want to color...

Input request Hi gang. I need some input/advice. My usual practice is to put fold lines on my models where I think they are really needed, and to leave them out where the fold is pretty obvious. Where I use fold lines I try to color them to blend in so they don't detract from the...