The kit is designed by "Kooklik." It is an excellent kit with detailed construction drawings. The finished model is just over three feet long. I built it several years ago, and at the Midwestern Model Ships & Boats Contest held 19-20 May 2023 at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, my U-Boat received a Gold Award.
The contest was held on 19-20 May at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. I took six paper models for entry and one for display. I brought home six Gold Awards. The photos were taken by museum staff. These are the paper models I took to the contest.
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• photos by museum staff: Photos - Google Drive
• my photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/198476792@N04/albums
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams
The model is one of three Murray River paddlesteamers from World of Paper Ships, all in 1/100 scale. The kit comes printed on smooth card stock with excellent artwork.There are parts for two versions, a simplified model and a more detailed model. The latter includes detailed engine, pilothouse, and paddlewheels. The optional laser-cut set is a must if you want a truly detailed model.
The kit presents the boat as tourist boat. I wanted a working boat, so I omitted a few modern fittings and added some freight to the foredeck. I scratchbuilt the stand with "water" from an online texture library and texture papers from Clever Models.
At the Midwestern Model Ships & Boats Contest held 19-20 May 2023 at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, my Adelaide earned a Gold Award.
In 1935 two Italian naval engineers, Captains Teseo Tesei and Elios Toschi, proposed a manned submersible vehicle adapted from a standard naval torpedo. In the San Bartolomeo torpedo shops in La Spezi, they built and successfully tested two prototypes.
The Italian Navy called the submersible Siluro a Lenta Corsa (“slow-running torpedo”). Its poor maneuverability earned it the nickname Maiale (“pig”) among its crews. Each SLC carried one or two warheads and up to two hours of air for each crew member. It went into production in 1939. The Italian Navy built more than 50 SLCs before Italy signed its armistice with Allies in 1943.
"Aerosan" means "aero sleigh" in Russian. A variety of aerosan designs were built and used by Eastern European countries during the first half of the 20th century. But it was Russia that made the most use of these propeller-powered sleds.
The Aerosan RF-8 was built by the Gorky Automobile Factory under the name GAZ-98 and entered service in 1942. It was used in variety of roles including, recon, patrol, communications and raiding, often in support of ski troops and often behind enemy lines. Some 2,000 were built.
The GAZ-98 was powered by a GAZ truck engine. In the winter 1942-43, many of them were refitted with water-cooled inline aircraft engines and redesignated RF-8 or GAZ-98K.
They were built of plywood on a wooden frame, rode on independently sprung wooden skis, carried a crew of two, and mounted a single 7.62 mm DT machine gun. The RF-8 was fast, stable, and effective in its various roles. It continued in service until 1950 for border patrol.
The model is a free download from Paper Diorama. I built this one as a gift for a friend who was a product engineer in the snowmobile industry. It's a nice little model and an easy kit to build.
This is another of Yoav Hozmi's digital kits for Israeli jets. I reduced it from 1/30 to 1/33 scale, so it would fit on letter-size sheets. then built "out of the box." My only addition is the pilot, also made of paper. At 1/33 scale, this a large model, 22 inches long with a wingspan of 15 inches. The kit doesn't include landing gear, so it is displayed in flight. Yoav's kits are free downloads from the online forum papermodelers.com.
