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Just wanted to say I'm still here. I haven't had any time to work on this due to the holidays and hope to get back to it sometime after the new year. Happy holidays to everyone.

Well, it's been a little slow going. I have updated a few of the parts on the templates like the propellers and guns to make them a bit more accurate and added some details to the conning tower. I've been delayed somewhat with some technology issues. First, I decided to print the templates on...

Ok, thanks. Good to know.

In case anyone is wondering, the arrows around some of the parts designate how the grain of the paper is supposed to run. There was a chapter at the beginning of the book that explained the types of materials, tools, construction techniques, grain orientation, etc. to be used to help build the...

As a comparison, here are the original prints from the book. The original models I made 40 years ago were just direct printed copies of these drawings. The length of these drawings as well as my models ended up being about 6.25". I enlarged the new templates to fit on a full 8.5" x 11" page, so...

So I finally was able to rescale the one page to match the scale of the other, which allowed me to fit everything on two pages. The original prints only had one drawing for each piece so you had to make duplicates for those that needed it. On the new templates, I added all the duplicate pieces...

Thanks very much. I finished the majority of the painting and printed on regular paper to see how everything matches. Originally, I split the templates between two pages but one of them wouldn't fit on the 8" x 11.5" sheets I was using so I went with three pages. After printing some test sheets...

Thanks, that's good to know. After starting to paint it, I decided to go in two different directions like I did originally. One, a German u-boat and two, a US fleet boat. To do that, I want to alter some of the parts to make them slightly more accurate, so that will help it fall into "something...

The book was published by Sterling Publishing Company in 1970. I did some research and found that Barnes & Nobles acquired them in 2003 and they were rebranded as Union Square & Co. in 2022. From what I found, works published after 1923, but before 1978 are protected for 95 years from the date...

Here's a shot of the completed sub from the book.

I finally found the book. I plan on scanning the relevant templates later today. They are just black line drawings on the pages and originally the model was painted after construction but I'm considering coloring the templates in Photoshop after scanning them. That way they're pre-colored and...

Thanks for the kind words. And yes, I was planning on doing just that. Actually, when I originally built them, I just made paper copies of the templates from the book they are from since back then there weren't any scanners (or home computers). Speaking of, once I find the book (hopefully later...

So, I was recently cleaning out my attic and came across a couple of submarine paper models I built over 40 years ago when I was a teenager. I haven't done any kind of modeling for quite some time due to a lack of time dealing with the house, cars, wife, kids, etc. I finally have some time to...

Thanks very much. I'm actually going to try building the Gemini 8 capsule using better paper than the other models and after seeing some of the other construction techniques here, especially the models that Rhaven Blaack has done, I'm going to try to detail it with extra pieces to give it that...

Thank you. It is very much appreciated.

I built the interior of the Gemini capsule, again from Delta 7, not long after finishing Friendship 7. I never finished it but now might be a good time to get back into it. These models were never meant to be the final product. My intention was to print them with normal quality and build them...

Thank you, I'll have to check that out too.

Thank you all so much for the welcome. I have mostly built plastic models but a few paper ones along the way. Another that I built many years ago was the Delta 7 1/24 'Friendship 7'. I'd like to get back into paper modeling and after seeing some on this site, the amount of detailing is amazing.

Just wanted to say hello and thanks for having me. I haven't built too many paper models. I believe my first was the 3-D Paper 1/48 Boeing 727-200 I built sometime around 1983-1984, which I still have. Here's a photo of it with my son holding it from about 6 years ago (can't believe he'll be 14...