Very good. Looks like some more have been bitten by the bug. On Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:40:55 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > Howdy Folks, > > I Just returned from Hawaii where pilot friends were celebrating their > 30th anniversary. > My wife and I joined them for nine days at their time share in Maui and > four days at their time share in Oahu. > This provided an opportunity for me to introduce paper modeling. > > Our tools: a side removed from a Coke Zero carton became our cutting > board. > We drove down to the village and bought scissors, Elmers tacky glue, an > x-acto knife with blades, and super glue. His wife let us borrow her > tweezers and seam ripper; used that for scoring, and my wife let us use one > of her sanding sticks. For edge coloring we used my small travel water > color kit I take on trips. > > They brought their his and hers computers and a printer. > (Airport Security had no interest in their computers but had to see the > flat printer.) > > Back in the fifties he was a trophy winning control line competition > modeler and is still active with gas powered control line modeling. > I showed him how easy it is to find paper models on the internet and > within minutes we selected a Gee Bee from > www.cerveza-craft.com/GB.html > and he started cutting. > > To discuss something a little bit more detailed we downloaded a > Kubelwagen ( by > Zio Prudenzio) which I put together with his assistance in cutting out > some of the parts. > > An interesting experience; at the beginning I listed five steps required > in constructing paper modeling and could think of no more. However, in the > process of building we must have shared at least twenty. I learned what it > is like to build without my favorite tools made up of dental tools, wooden > dowels, and all the other toolbox tricks learned over the years. My > Kubelwagen > end result certainly is not competition worthy but it in itself was a > valuable teaching tool. > > Bob Penikas >
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