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I was researching this topic for a thread on TMP about 28mm dropship models.

It turns out there are various rather nice ship models available as plans to print and construct from card.

If you wanted to beef them up, it should be possible to glue the card onto polystyrene sheet (plasticard) and add more details either from bitz or by printing your own add-ons.

I haven't tried any of these yet. Have any Dakka users got experience? I remember a thread recently by someone who made a Leman Russ or something.

http://www.currell.net/models/ss1.htm
http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/chickenhawk.html
http://aliens.humlak.cz/aliens/aliens_papirove_modely_gb.htm
http://www.mil-net.net/hercules.cfm
http://paperstarships.tengun.net/index.php

Im testing to make a rhino made of cardboard atm.
I downloaded a bunch of templates for alot of big veichles.

The Fallen Angel wrote:Im testing to make a rhino made of cardboard atm.
I downloaded a bunch of templates for alot of big veichles.

share please

I have some PDFs of monoliths and Ork vehicles. If I knew how the hell to post those I would for ya lol

HEY figured it out, arnt I smart. I guess all I have is the monolith one lol


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Its super detailed tho. And when complete and painted its a bit tough to tell this one from a real one

Here are some...
im having a hard time making the rhino so ill just put my own ideas into it aswell.

SM attackbike never tried to make one.

I tend to look at these templates for reference, and in this case I might suggest using polystyrene card .020 or .030 and laminating (gluing several layers together, not encasing them in clear thermoplastic!) them for the structural vanes rather than making boxes. I'll have to get a bit more card before i test these out.

Edit: Eye kan speel guud.

Oldgrue wrote:I tend to look at these templates for reference, and in this case I might suggest using polystyrene card .020 or .030 and laminating (gluing several layers together, not encasing them in clear thermoplastic!) them for the structural vanes rather than making boxes. I'll have to get a bit more card before i test these out.

Edit: Eye kan speel guud.

if you want more i'll try to upload them for you.
I got templates for many races.

YO I GOTS TEMPLATES FOR YO TEMPLATES!

KingCracker wrote:YO I GOTS TEMPLATES FOR YO TEMPLATES!

huh?


in other news...
the rhino im making turned out a little to scrappy for SM so im making it into a looted rhino for Orks instead

anyone got ideas for some weps?

Dudes this torents got a lot!!!
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3784174/Warhammer_40K_Modeling_and_Scratchbuild_Templates

Are these torrent files legal?

If not, we don't want to link to them from DakkaDakka.

Well if you wanna go cardboard literally then you should see my cardboard gargant.
http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=10756.0

Also a pic to make you more interested

Drop Pod... print 3 copies of this on cardstock and you'll see how it goes together. Use a photo-editor to change the colors.

COuld someone tell me where have you got those templates?

I wish I could remember. I think I linked to it from Minaturewargaming.com or something like that... If I could find it again I would love to credit the author.

Google?

There is a yahoo group you can google or search through yahoo groups called BWC-Archive who have tons of schema and the like. You have to join the group and that can take a lil while, but worth it.

BWC-Archive and BWC-Archive2 are two biggies on Yahoo.

There are also other sites that will have the old GW France 3 fin dread drop pod templates, and I think I have most of the 40k templates I'm interested in (I've never liked orks, though - but I still have a set of templates for the original battlewagon).

@Killkrazy: The chickenhawk is pretty neat. Needs some stiff card (or plasticard) to get it to work right (and a good glue). I've got one half-done for a game coming up (it's a set piece for an infinity demo - but it will also serve as a "Get to the choppa!" mission objective).

I started working on the Chickenhawk as well. I'm using cardstock, but its not particularly rigid.

If anyone is interested to see the progress, let me know.

I would love to see it.

I started the Chickenhawk. I printed the designs onto paper then glued the paper to 240gsm card. It was not a success as the paper wasn't 100% stuck down, there were bubbles, and the card curled up something terrible.

If I can get old of white card I will try printing on that.

I reckon if the card is too thick, it won't run through the printer. If it's too thin to be stiff enough for a tabletop model, it could be reinforced with plastic sheet and internal struts.

Well, im currently making a Warhound out of thick Cardboard, from Templates. Those templates are pretty easy to find on the net, i got htem in a big pack. Build-40k also has 'em but its a useless site.
I just finnished a foot... About the size of a teenage girl's hand.