Red done mozzy started

Decided to get finished with the gnat the decals hated me tho so they look kinda terrible and I got a good start on the mosquito as well 

As you can see there uneven and some missing 

Look closely and you'll see cockpit instruments tho 

I decided gear down cause I'm lazy and that's how I do all of them lol so about what's left is gear and decals at this point canopy on both they should both be fun to finish too 

Forgot the cat

Yall remember that picture of the tomcat (f14 I think)? The sheet of paper that proubly looked like a complex build? I just realised (ok last night) that I never got pictures of it completed just the pattern on paper 

Here it is on top of a model of it the papers wings are taped but can be adjusted the plastics do swing well 

But of a close-up don't look so good at all that I can tell but was still a fun build 

And the belly now I've heard the markings on the paper are inaccurate like wrong matching or that (can't really see) and the intakes are way too rounded on the paper that was partly me being lazy (the tyres on the plastic aren't glued yet which is part of why ones missing) 

Hopefully that's a good compairison point of plastic to paper? I say overall at that scale the paper was the easyier build only because it was pre-coloured I also got to work out what was where and such like it was a puzzle of sorts which are allways fun! 

Good luck yall and have fun! 

Couple paper builds and tests

Old pic but I got some 80 65 and 100# ranges of paper my brother lazer printer seems to hate them all! I love the printer tho so I don't get the issue per se but I got my cannon printer to work so I'm perhaps not as overly concerned as I could be 

I printed up 3 copies of 3 different planes my intent build each side-by-side see what I prefer for paper and stick to that the one on the left is metallic paper (look closely on first pic you'll see it) it's a "wild weasel" f16 if I recall correctly and the right was a tan sheet (somehow looks like white was printed onto the cockpit to me) it's "f22 Lightning II" markings imply f22 test plane ("yf22") but "f22" is a raptor and "f35" is the "Lightning II" so they got something very wrong in that making me very glad I found it on Pinterest and it was free because if I paid and it was wrong I'd be contacting them 

And I decided to get working on my vamp just cause I could I really could stand to have a more tidy area if I could see what was where I may want to work on them more finishing and all 

On the vamp I have some stuff painted (black) I have yet to decide but I'll likely do gear down cause I can the whole rear section is glued together and to 1 of the pieces of wing the cockpit is started (paints) and assembled somewhat some paints on the pilots I'll have to get the colour out and paint the body soon enough too gonna be fun there lol I'd say a decent start considering lol 

An example of "paper modelling"

This was just intended as a couple quick examples these were found with Google some Pinterest some not 

So first let's see a sheet example 

Yes I am aware not best they were laying around a little bit you can kinda see some main features like the wingtip tanks tail wings fuselage and gear (most that I've seen do have landing gear) 

I just "happen" to have a plastic model of this (f9f) and no I didn't make the wingtip tanks on the paper hopefully you can see how similar they are or aren't from there the plastic isn't fully made as it stands 

And here's what an f15 looks like it's all but gear and missiles overall I think that was an impressive one it was a "fiddlers green" one I found 

Here's an f14 example I found but have yet to build I've heard there intended for "cardstock" which I got some 80# to test (5 sheets) overall I think these tend to come out pretty nice I tend to use more tape (dollar store) then glue (stick or the crayola learner stuff or I have a stick from blick both of which were tricky to get  usted to using and how they work only use a tiny bit like what would come out of a glue stick 

Good luck finding some guys! I'll have to setup a Facebook page to post links/pics/such so everyone can get a good variety *note* I'm more into military craft then not but I'll try to find anything requested