You can avoid warping on any kind of lamination if you laminate symetrically. Always glue a blank sheet of the same cardstock as the pattern sheet to the opposite side at the same time. Everything will stay flat. I do all my lamination between two 1"-thick pieces of 11-ply birch plywood (very stable, very flat, very smooth) with 25# lead blocks for pressure. Oh, and don't forget the waxed paper!
Jayo ----- Original Message ----- From: James Hairston To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:31 AM Subject: [Papermodels II 39125] Re: START U-Boat Type VII-C 1:32 If you use foam-core laminate both sides and lay it on a flat surface with a board on top until dry to prevent warping. Laminating card stock on to a ½ “white pine plank will warp when the glue dries. Another choice would be macionite. Jim James J. Hairston 8559 Birch Creek Rd. Keller Tx. 76248 H: (817) 337-4183; E-Mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Papermodels II 39123] Re: START U-Boat Type VII-C 1:32 Matt, Rick has a valid point. Foam-Cor has a tendency to warp. If there are enough vertical vs. horizontal, right angle formers, this may not be too much of a problem but why take the chance? As I said previously, 3/8" seems pretty thick. I'd suggest checking out some ship builds to see what others are using. JoeG -----Original Message----- From: Rick Steffers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 11:33 am Subject: [Papermodels II 39119] Re: START U-Boat Type VII-C 1:32 the foam won't, but the paper will I have seen pieces of foam core warp almost into a tube, because of the paper Rick On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Matthew Sparks <[email protected]> wrote: how Thick are those laminated formers? I am designing a ship and I specified my formers to be 3/8inch thick or 9.5 mm Simply becauase then I can lust laminate it to foamcore instead of building up from cardstock, Any opinons for or against foam core? Thanks Matt Sparks -- "Rock is Dead, Long Live Paper and Scissors" Want the same traffic, attitude, and information? Check out www.papermodelers.com Love Racing? Love Paper Models? Check Out http://rpmodels.proboards46.com/ http://paperdakar.blogspot.com/ http://picasaweb.google.com/rickstef http://internationalpapermodelconvention.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
