"Which Plastic Kit is That?" -- (Gotcha! It's Paper!)

In mid-July, I went to Madison, WI for the IPMS 2024 National Meet. In a display-only room, we had six tables of paper models, and a lot of plastic modelers came to see them. A lot of them said, "I was told I HAD to see this."

The photos are my build of Yoav's 1/32-scale Israeli F-15 paper model kit. I included it in the display at Madison. Over four days, I was asked at least a dozen times, "Is that the Tamiya or Revell kit?" (Gotcha!) I had fun explaining that even the pilot is made out of paper.

Clever Models Steel Utility Shed kit - 1:87 scale

Clever Models'  kit calls for assembling the cardstock walls with corner tabs and cardstock formers. I laminated the 65# cardstock walls to 0.5mm card (cereal box), cut off the tabs, and braced the walls inside with stripwood for a sturdier structure. I used two pieces of stripwood for the door guide. The card just wasn't stiff enough. The finished building measures about 3"x4". Build time was about 3 hours.