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The side frames seem to be a bit oversized, but I'm not sure if the hull plates are sized for them or the keel. I glued them on flush with the top and figure I can do some surgery if the bottom plates wind up being too small. The deck and top sides are all one piece and seem fit fine. I'll...

I've built enough free kits that I've decided to build something I actually bought. I'm not up for that big Shokaku yet, so a little 1:250 JSC WWI U-boat will do. The kit is two pages with English instructions included and is hand drawn. The framework is different than normal as there is no...

Pampa71, Your ships are absolutely gorgeous and I've bookmarked your site. Would you consider doing a build thread here of your next one? I'm sure I could learn a lot from your techniques.

This is one of the best models I've ever seen. Plus a lot of great tips! Thanks for posting this.

Here's a 1:250 freebie http://home.mindspring.com/~carapace/ I printed it out some time ago, but haven't built it yet. You have to go to all of the pages to get the parts. I did build his other ship, and that went together quite nicely.

Thanks for the tip on the pens, they do sell them here! The wheel jig looks good, the wheel flanges seem quite small and realistic.

Hi Bill, thanks for the comments and the tips. It did seem that a thinner paper might have worked more easily once I was about half way into it. I've got something here that's basically high quality ink jet paper that might work. I've downloaded a bunch of these over the last few months and...

I just started a submarine, and now I'm looking again at this and want to go for a train instead... Maybe something narrow gauge. I love the red wheels on these German/Polish trains. What are you using to paint your edges? It looks like maybe gouache? cgutzmer - I did see the ol49, it is...

Hi Atamjeet, Here are some sites for free trains: http://www.icebergbouwplaten.nl/indexe.html - go to links and then more vehicles and then trains. I'm not sure there are any steam locos here though. http://www.bastelbogen-online.de/ - go to eisenbahn. I even built one of these. Here some...

She's finished now and standing on her place on the bookcase. Here are the last pictures. Hope you enjoyed the build!

Now it's time to build her top. It quickly became apparent that I would have to assemble the figure while putting the top on. Then the arms go on after the top and finally the head and the little bow. This was a pretty fun little kit, but a lot more involved than I thought it would be at the...

Frank, thank you very much for posting this. I'm going to do a ship next, but after that I'm debating between this one and the Ol 49 with the coaches. The P4 is beautitul, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this builds with no modifications. The frame is looking great so far!

And now, we move on to the skirt. For some reason there is an inside and outside. I guess that's to cover up the tabs. The hardest part was getting the insides glued on.

It's been a while since my last update on Akari. The weather's been great which has been nice for grilling steaks and sailing, but not so good for paper modeling... I got back to the cutting mat this weekend and here are the results. First, a shot of all the body parts.

Oh, this Rodney build is looking really good. And the kitchen looks great, I put up cabinets last year including a corner unit. I wish I would have seen this post back then. The jack idea is great, I just screwed 2 x 4's into the wall and shimmed to level. Saw horses and jacks, man that...

I'm sorry Lex, I didn't mean to imply that you should design some for me. I just thought might be interested since they are dolls and some of them are made of paper. Anyhow, I do like your anime stuff a lot and your ship is just amazing so far!

These are really good Lex, I'm still amazed how fast you design and build stuff!! Since you are listed as a Doll Maker, are you interested in traditional Ningyo at all? My wife loves them, especially Hina dolls and we went to galleries looking for them when we lived in Hong Kong. Harder to...

And the final shot of glue and splitshot inside the boots. I guess now it's onto her flowing gowns and hat...

And a couple more pics of the hair. I don't know if she'll stand up properly, so on the way home today we had to stop at Wal-Mart for a variety of stuff and bought some split shot for the feet. I hope this is enough to keep her balanced, I may put some more in the ankles once they are glued in...

And then we go to the head. Not that many parts, doesn't look that difficult.... I swear, it took around 16 hours by the time I was finished. One of my other hobbies is sculpting 80mm figurines, I'll post a picture later on in the thread. This paper head was more difficult than that - I didn't...