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Hello,
When I was a student in the late 90s, I used to play Warhammer (fantasy battle) and man o war. I was interested in 40k but never actually played it.
Now I recently discovered paper modeling and my son (13) is insterested in 40k as his friends are playing it so I bought him the new 6th ed base set and
I am building vehicles out of paper for him (and for the fun of it).
As I had questions about colors for the vehicles another member of my paper modeling forum (silveroxide who is also a member of this forum) directed me here.
I am attaching some pics of what I have done for now.

Thanks for the nice welcome

thanks for all the compliments. I am working on another stormtalon (blood raven and I will give it a clear cockpit).
Paper vehicles can be made nicer if they are painted in the end but my painting is not so good and I have never done vehicles so I don't paint them, this also give me the time needed to build more and paint miniatures (although right now I am painting a Super Dungeon Explore set and I am letting my son learn to paint his own figs).

 master of ordinance wrote:
From an ex-paper modeler: Welcome to Dakka.

Youve certainly found a way to save on the money but still enjoy the game

not really playing yet but I will play at least with my son once he has painted his mini from the starter box.
Regarding the money saving it depends on the worth one give to his own time as this takes much longer to assemble than a plastic kit and if painted the paint takes as long.
The thing though is I really enjoy building the paper models.


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 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Any chance of commission work?

Never thought about it but I'd say no to most fair price. I don't have too much time so for now I build some which we intend to use.
But if I continue building some regularly I'll run out of place so it may change.

a spin (360 picture) of the ultramarine stormtalon
http://arqspin.com/s/epzwin6agmco
I'll make one of the stormraven later.

Another 360 of a just finished blood raven stormtalon
http://www.bcerrina.com/stormtalon_spin2/config-storm2.html

a couple more spins of war40k papercrafts I built
stormraven
http://arqspin.com/s/369t3u0m992qt
dark eldar venom
http://arqspin.com/s/ymumyi80hgnt

 Kaiserbudheim wrote:
Welcome aboard and - - OH MAN ARE THOSE AWESOME PAPERCRAFT! Can't wait to see what else you'll have in your gallery! Are all those hand cut or do you have a vector cutter? Do you have non 40K papercraft built as well?

Hand cut for now, I am thinking about an SD cameo for Christmas but I also need the place for it, my little desk is cramped and in an appartment I don't have the luxury of a garage or workshop as I used to have when leaving in the US.
Yes I have non 40K paper craft. Some manowar ships (they got me started as the miniatures are out of print) regular ships and a few oddities (bird, dragonfly, ...)



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Hello Silveroxide,
yes I'll cross post, I used to do it between a papercraft forum in France and Zealot, it takes time though. But it make sense to post here too.

For those wondering about the next stuff, I am working on dreadnoughts, I posted one on the dreadnought show off thread and I'll post it here once I have both pictures and a 360 view of it.

Here is the second of a pair of papercraft dreadnought. It is all paper with 3 exceptions, the CCW (I have claws or chain fist options) are made of plasticard, the base rocks are made of polystyrene and the magnets to hold the choice of CCW are made of "magnets".
The torso can rotate as well as the arms which can be swapped out. The CCW arm can also move within the shoulder.
I'll do a spin pretty soon.
Please tell me what you think

PS:
the arms are painted but not the dread itself I intend to do so later, but the paper make it passable even unpainted

Dreadnought is finally painted, sorry for the bad picture quality.
I'll also try to do a 360 shortly.

Thanks, silveroxide's is even better but I definitely appreciate the compliment

Using 160gsm for most of it and 190 or 250 for reinforcements. I use acrylic paint but and the heavy lamination prevented it from warping. However this was my first try painting the paper model and next time I'll seal it first. The reason is not so much to prevent warping but so that the paint does not get absorb by the paper as fast, I would've the paint to behave more like when painting minis.