Latest bit of madness: IG Medusa - all paper

Man, that's sick!! Rep for you - btw want to see it painted

Very impressive bit of work.
How well does the card take to undercoat and paint?

WOW, that's amazing. Did you do this from palns or just from the top of your head?

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Nice work man!! I hope you've logged alot of photos for the contest! I do historical armour and I know the drill with IPMS and the North East scene! One comment I'd hit you on if I were a judges is the gun position with the blast shield. The shield on MY left is rubbing the gun and there is a much bigger gap on the right hand side! Just watch that brother, they might ding ya on it! Great work though!!!

Totally awesome! wish I had the time & skills to build a paper card tank for my army!!!

No way dude, that thing is awesome. To think you made it from scratch:shok:

Skar

Wow this is gonna look sweet when its painted. have some rep.

The original plans came from a Russian 40ker that goes by the handle of Patoroch. I must admit to adding some detail to the model (like rivets and tank tread links). I am priming with sandable auto body primer, but am using a new type as the place I usually get my primer from changed companies....we'll see how it goes (maybe it will all go to mush...)

The shield was not glued in at the time of photography and the gun is not either....so I can paint it better.

look here for links:

http://www.starshipmodeler.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=82137

aaahhh ok cool man... glad you explained it, well done!!

man thats awesome, looks as gd as the actual kits :good:
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Great work!

Wow amazing, how durable is it. Could the same thing be done with thin plasticard.

This...is...awesome

pretty nifty...i'm thoroughly impressed! how did you do those treads? I've been struggling with those.

asianavatar said:

Wow amazing, how durable is it. Could the same thing be done with thin plasticard.

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yes it could, i did a scratch built baneblade using card many moons ago which warped badly when paint went on to it, that was when i discovered plasticard.
I now sell the stuff in a4 sheets.

A fine piece of work thy medusa is. Most impressive skill you have.

Thanks for all the compliments! Now an update, I have it colored and am starting to weather it. It was painted with sand-able auto body primer, and then painted with a mixture of acrylics including GW paints. No warping and it is somewhat water proof on the surface.

gwmaniac said:

pretty nifty...i'm thoroughly impressed! how did you do those treads? I've been struggling with those.

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I printed out the treads twice. The first I left as a strip, then I cut a verrrry thin piece of cardstock to use for the link pins. I cut and glued them into position on the first strip. I then cut out the individual links on the second track and glued them down over the link pins on the first track. Finally, I cut out the squares and glued them down to the top of the links.

Wow. I saw this thread after viewing the Medusa in the wild where it belongs. Nice work dude! I'm giving rep for the other thread but you still get rep.