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ZCS Paper Chase Contest
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This is your chance to design, build, and paint a paper/cardstock model. There are three categories 1) Best Custom Build 2) Best Download Build 3) Best Group Build. The “Best Custom Build” category lets you design, paint, and build your own paper/cardstock model. The “Best Download Build” category is for the modeler that has built a downloaded a paper/cardstock model. And the “Best Group Build” category is for the modeler that has gone the extra mile to assemble several downloaded and/or custom made paper/cardstock models.
The ZCS Paper Chase Contest ends on Midnight PST, Tuesday July 31st, 2012.
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Just for example:
and No Wabbit- you have to come up with something else!
This is a NON entry!
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Hope this works:
www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/construct_mainstreet.htm
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The Octo-House. I cut wood in octogon shape covered it with paper bricks- etc - then added doors and windows. Never did finish steps. I post it here to maybe spark some imagination-- It is a NON Entry!
Placed amid a bunch of trees and bushes and "finishing" it up- it might pass.
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I also wanted to supply a few texture links for some of us that are not artistically inclined. I use a few of these myself.
cgtextures
3dtexture
mayang
texturer
Good Luck!
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New Rails Folding Drink & Tool Holder.
Save your layout and models from the danger of spilling liquid from drinks while you're working or operating with our new adjustable folding drink and tool holder.
Features
Adjustable width will hold cans as well as larger drink cups
Folds flat when not in use to save space
Includes four black wood screws
Black textured finish matches our Universal Throttle Pocket™
Made from durable ABS plastic
Lots of Great Uses
Hold cans or drink cups
Use cups to hold tools while you work on your layout
Use on your layout, your workbench, and in your crew lounge
I will custom print (personalize) a wooden Modeler's Pad with your name, RR Heralds, and favorite image similar to my personal modeling pad below.
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To finish of some areas I used markers, but weathering chalks will work better since they will not only dull the cardstock but add detail. Once I am completely done I will post this in the ZCS Library for all to download and use. On that same sheet I should have a blank template so modelers can make their own models.
In my photo you will notice several previous versions, too give you an idea some of my mistakes.
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It's a downloaded kit from www.haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/ which we scaled down from HO scale into Z.
It's printed on ordinary gloss copying paper and then slightly weathered with chaulks. The model is of the house on the hill from "Psycho" so I decided to put it in a slightly "spooky" surroundings with two swings swinging by themselves. I also added a Märklin Old styled City light. I know the contest was a paper model contest but I couldn't help myself.
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Gentlemen, thank you for entering some beautiful paper modeling. I will get with all of you to find out what RR Logos and RR image you want on your personalized modeling board. And I will put aside a New Rails Folding Tool and Drink Holder to send along with your modeling pad. I will also need your mailing address.
Thanks!
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I will forward the praise to my brother!
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Petter- Your brother did a wonderful job!! You didn't exactly pick the easiest model to build
I even see Moma looking out the upstairs window.. and the swing is spooky!!
Just as an aside: I saw in an old fishing town in Maine "Baits Hotel" - a play on "Bates Hotel"
Thom- starting from scratch- Your building looks good. I like the angles and roofs- etc. That would be a great pattern to build in Styrene clapboard or vertical boards, board and battan. Real fishey. Do you still have a pattern or did you cut it all up.
John- your gondolas look like they have seen many a mile Gluing the paper to both sides of thin styrene would make it easier to maintain squarness etc. There are probably many gondolas out there that show the sress and ware of rugged use. I used to work alongside a scap metal plant. A very large magnet- mounted on a crane- would pick up huge chucks of steel, motors, etc swing over the gondola and DROP into the rail road car. This type of operation did not keep the cars in pristine condition for long.
Another aside.. a true sea story.. I rescued 15 crewmen from a sinking ship one day out from the Panama Canal in the Pacific. They claimed that the hold bottoms were damaged when the loading operator in Boston, dropped car motors from to high. Drafts are taken before a ship sails from the loading port- and at entering the canal- both were the same. She diden't leak from Boston to Panama- but sank a day after gaining the Pacific. Some skullduggary goin on!! BTW- they all had suitcases, passports, etc- not a sign of a hastey departure.
Back to paper models- often it is easier to build if mounted on something stiff- like cardboard- better Styreene.
I think our members might have been distracted with work,, vacations, mowing the lawn, and just summer- I won't mention ladies
Thanks again John-
Oh- one last note: Just heard Mr Dave just won out in Michigan. I think I first saw his early modules in Timonium, many years ago and Chantilly and Cincinati. They include Brass, resin cast, lazer cut wood, and yes even card stock buildings.
Congratulations Mr Dave
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Fred....I'm afraid there never was a pattern for the building. It was designed, measured and cut right out of the index card. I agree that it would be better in styrene but index card was all I had on hand.
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