Paper And/Or Plastic
Jun. 26th, 2005 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
A couple years ago, a buddy of mine in the local IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society) turned me on to a website in Russia that carried Polish Maly Modelarz (literally, "Little Models") paper models that had been scanned for download. That site's gone, but at least two others have sprung up with their content since.
I haven't actually built anything from that content yet, but I have downloaded a bunch of the models and continue to do so. Not that I have enough scale model projects to do, just that this offers opportunities to explore that I haven't tried. Examples: I can enlargen the graphics by splitting the files and printing them separately, as my graphics program fits to page. This way I could have a pattern for a plastic model that could be assembled from sheet styrene, and be the same scale as an action figure. Or I could combine plates to reduce the size of the model, for the purpose of having gaming figure scale pieces.
http://www.modelarz.narod.ru/indexe.htm (The original site addy. By combining this with http://web.archive.org/ I've found loads of otherwise lost content.)
http://www.beuliland.com/
http://glidersusa.free.fr/modelli/ (The two main sites that have the content available now.)
Maly Modelarz also has their own official website too: http://malymodelarz.webpark.pl/ They don't have any downloadable models, but rumor is they've collected scanned files for a series of CDs. If those are really available I'd want to get them.
Why? To make something that would be truly my own. Haven't decided exactly what, but that's part of the process.
FP
A couple years ago, a buddy of mine in the local IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society) turned me on to a website in Russia that carried Polish Maly Modelarz (literally, "Little Models") paper models that had been scanned for download. That site's gone, but at least two others have sprung up with their content since.
I haven't actually built anything from that content yet, but I have downloaded a bunch of the models and continue to do so. Not that I have enough scale model projects to do, just that this offers opportunities to explore that I haven't tried. Examples: I can enlargen the graphics by splitting the files and printing them separately, as my graphics program fits to page. This way I could have a pattern for a plastic model that could be assembled from sheet styrene, and be the same scale as an action figure. Or I could combine plates to reduce the size of the model, for the purpose of having gaming figure scale pieces.
http://www.modelarz.narod.ru/indexe.htm (The original site addy. By combining this with http://web.archive.org/ I've found loads of otherwise lost content.)
http://www.beuliland.com/
http://glidersusa.free.fr/modelli/ (The two main sites that have the content available now.)
Maly Modelarz also has their own official website too: http://malymodelarz.webpark.pl/ They don't have any downloadable models, but rumor is they've collected scanned files for a series of CDs. If those are really available I'd want to get them.
Why? To make something that would be truly my own. Haven't decided exactly what, but that's part of the process.
FP
