Billy?s Gallery
http://gallery.me.com/billy.leliveld#gallery
Please keep in mind that all aircraft models are made with card stock paper

wow, especialy the Sr 71 is very impressive to me

Yeah, complex curves with card stock can't be easy!

Have any of you seen some of the models made with "Card Stock"?

Paper aviation models pre-date the Wright Brothers.The French company Pellerin produced cut-out sheets to make baloons and powered air-ships in the early 1900's. They produced a Wright Flyer in the year it was first flown in Europe and went on to produce WWI planes. Card cut-out sheets were popular untill surplanted by plastic kits in the1950's. The tradition continued in eastern Europe and Polish and German publishers still offer an enormous range of highly detailed aircraft models.

Google "card cut-outs" and get out your scissors and glue, there are enough downloadble freebies of aircraft, and a hundred and one other subjects (giant beetles any one), to keep you busy for the rest of your life.

Wingco.

You really have no idea on the detailed models that are out there Wingco. The models I have seen put plastic to shame. It's real easy to snap off plastic parts and glue it together. Japan has the best models but the Americans have a lot as well made and not all are free. There is a Sherman tank with 11,300 card stock paper parts that has more detail then any other plastic model I have seen. To make the paper do what you want to do is far frm easy and there is a huge learning cruse to go along with it. You need yo update your information on this subject.

X-15
http://gallery.me.com/billy.leliveld#100067&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Pape

A lot of these guys don't buy kits or D/L models, they make them from scratch.
Curiusity end Skycrane 1:20
merzo
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/pasa-paper-aeronautical-space-administration/19244-curiusity-end-skycrane-1-20-thanks-yogi.html
3 pages.

Sorry Wadcutter, thought from your post you were new to the subject and looking for more info. I don't think I need to update my info, been collecting and building cut-outs for forty years. As with plastic kits complexity and number of parts doesn't neccesarily produce a good model, and as far as difficulty is concerned organic subjects are naturaly more difficult to reproduce in card than engineering ones.

Wingco.

Wow! I never realized.
I built 1/32nd scale for years, then did a scratch built 1/16th K4 that took close to 22 months to complete, but
I'll be damned to understand how this is done. Fantastic work.