"Card Stock Building Model Tutorial" Topic

Hi all. I got a few queries about building card stock model buildings so I knocked up a quick tutorial last night.

I used a new Dave Graffam model, the Tool Shed, as the piece.

See it here:

link

Nicely done and clear. Thank you.

Hi Robert. Glad you found it useful mate.

thanks for finding rabbeting. I have made many core buildings the hard way, and I could have used that tool.

My list of Useful Wargaming Guides.

Techniques & Tips for Card Stock & Foam Board Modeling

Paper Modeling Guide

hope it helps.

As always, comments are appreciated.

Take care

Andy

I'll get back to my village in a moment. But if I may, one suggestion? The roof. The manila file folder works, of course. But you might want to use a cereal box or some such of about the same weight--already folded in the way you need the roof to fold. Of course, the manila folder can also work for this, if you glue the roof so the center line runs down the fold in the paper. Doubly true if your roof is regular printer paper and not cardstock. It's a minor thing, but it makes getting the roof to fold into place just that much easier.

And I'm getting to be a great believer in easy.

this has inspired me to buy some foam board, thanks. One question, I always struggle gluing the roof on, as you can't get inside and hold the bits together. Do you just reinforce and then not glue the roof, just let the struts hold it ?

Robert – yeah mate that's a cracking idea.

Happy – I don't glue the roof on. I just put the braces in place and, once everything is dry, sit the roof on. That way I can have access to the inside if I want. In about half the buildings I've modeled the inside of the building as well but I don't always do this as these days I've developed up a couple of 'sets' that I used when inside the building and I just have them on the side of the table.

The sets are just a series of walls and floors and some internal furniture. Years ago I built some generic furniture out of cork tile, cardboard, balsa, little bits of cloth etc and I augmented that with some dolls house furniture and some 28mm miniature furniture.

The advantage of the set is that it's flexible, you can take pictures at ground height and your model furniture goes a long way. The disadvantage is that it isn't as cool as all the inside of your buildings aren't modeled. For me the ability to turn out more buildings more quickly and to be able to take better pictures when inside the building won out in the end. More buildings means more variety in table top gaming which is where most of the action is for me.

DEW