GlueAndPaperGuy
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I tripped over Card Modeling AKA Papercraft sometime between 9-11 and 2012. The exact timing is lost to history. My first model remains available on John Leslie's Lower Hudson Valley E-Gift Shop. I consumed most of Ton Noteboom's Real Space patterns and never looked back. I did that time as a lone wolf. I've begun reaching out to other designers and builders of late. I've found that incredibly rewarding. I have had a chance to talk to one talented designer at length. Maybe I'll meet more here. My story is familiar. I was born more or less simultaneously with John Glenn's first flight. My early teen years were consumed with both Styrene and paper. My room once housed an entire solar system in which toilet tube spacecraft followed impossibly straight paths powered by loops of thread and constrained by an infinite number of cup-hooks. There were Foam ball planets. My father brought me stack after stack of original GULF LEMs from his Gulf Oil office in Century City Los Angeles where he was an important executive. You saw that office park in one of the 1970's Planet of the Apes renditions. I shook hands with Roddy McDowell in makeup there one evening whie the block buster was being shot. My 7 year old magnum opus Revell Styrene Saturn stack graced the Gulf Oil headquarters lobby for a time. My early thirties found me poor, bored and restless. Enter Ton's Apollo CM and escape tower. My dearest freind and 9th grade art rival still has it. My world is a much better place now. I no longer need to give models away upon completion. I can store them proudly. My wife and partner collaborates in my efforts at content production. No less than Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot himself was gifted with my first GULF LEM re-pop some kind soul had scaled to 1/96. I am itching to meet designers who may not have posted on Paper-Replika or the other forums and have created real space, fantasy space, critters et-all. I'll build anything once and somethings twice if I like 'em.
I have a Holey Grail and a White Whale. Moby's name is Ton Noteboom. I've been told Ton has "gone dark". He left his patterns in the care of Jon Leslie and walked off into the sunset workman's hat perched proudly on his head. I want to know that story. A perfect world would contain an actual conversation even if it is by email.
My Grail is shaped like the original distribution of the GULF LEM. I let my father quietly slip away to a better place without ever asking the obvious question: "Dad, who designed the original GULF LEM?" He probably met that person or hob-knobbed regularly with the folks in a corporate art department if he didn't.
I have a Holey Grail and a White Whale. Moby's name is Ton Noteboom. I've been told Ton has "gone dark". He left his patterns in the care of Jon Leslie and walked off into the sunset workman's hat perched proudly on his head. I want to know that story. A perfect world would contain an actual conversation even if it is by email.
My Grail is shaped like the original distribution of the GULF LEM. I let my father quietly slip away to a better place without ever asking the obvious question: "Dad, who designed the original GULF LEM?" He probably met that person or hob-knobbed regularly with the folks in a corporate art department if he didn't.