As promised, albeit too many months later (and at 2AM on the first day of a new year), I have returned to bring some more paper craft goodness to the blog.
Today, I'm going to show some photos of my laminating process and some of the details that worked, and some that didn't go as planned...
Figured I'd show a couple things that didn't initially go well, namely the vents. For these I attempted to use regular typing paper of my templates and slice slots where I would insert a flat object while the paper was wet and drying on the hull. It sorta looks like vents, that got stomped on by a careless soldier during a hail storm... Yeah, I'll find a way to make good looking paper vents... Someday... Until then, don't do this.
Next up, this is what worked. I guessed, and made a good assumption, about the thickness of card the next few details needed to be when they got glued onto the hull, and on top of each other. Wicked simple, realistic, and just damn good looking. Sometimes you just have to wing it and guess how thick you want each layer in a detail to be, or replace the paper with a found object like a cotton swab stick, toothpick section, or candy stick (for cylinders). Next up I used a toothpick to carefully dab a drop of glue onto each rivet head detail of each layer of detail. Again, you have to think ahead a few parts and try to add such rivets to the lower level of lamination before adding parts on top, otherwise you might not be able come back and get those rivets in place because your tool wont fit in some spots!
Tracks were pretty easy and strait forward, just tedious. I cut out the strip on a single sheet of index card stock for the base of the track. For each tread, I cut a strip from my cereal box stock the with of the tread pad, and then cut hundreds of strips to glue into place on the track before wrapping them around the road wheel/drive/idler assembly (thankfully those weren't individual details as well...).
Finally, we get to start making magic happen. Here I used a dark burnt umber while assembling to get the lower recesses that gave me a hard time the first time I built this model (seen in the background in a few places). By the time I got to the third one, I just left the tracks assemblies off completely until everything was painted! Learning to think ahead by pre-assembling saves time later as you find these recessed areas and pre-paint before assembly (especially the insides of gun barrels and exhaust tubes...).
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