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Pat:
I've built a few Fiddler's Green paper airplanes, as has a friend of mine, so I know it can work work in this material.  If the folds, cuts and bends are done carefully, you can construct very detailed 3D models.

I've seen plans for a few paper ships, but nothing ever as detailed as this.

http://www.papermodels.pl/index.php?topic=6736.0

Too bad I can't speak Polish to congratulate this guy and invite him to join our website.  He's done an excellent job making a paper U-boat.  Looks almost as detailed as the ones we have here, with all the flood holes, CT insturments, deck gun parts, railings, etc.

As far as I can tell by looking at the sequence of photos, it's all built on a keel and bulkhead plan, with the pressure hull and casing as separate parts added on in sections to get the proper shape.  The bulkheads and keel were glued to card stock to give some stiffness, and then spacers or stringers were added between the bulkheads for more stiffness and to give a larger surface area for gluing.  Then the boat was 'skinned' with the various plates held in place by wrapping thread around it until the glue dried.

It looks like every hatch and cover, and many of the hull and casing plates, were all separate pieces to add realism.

VERY impressive!!

Rokket:
nice job! Does he know paper gets soggy though? ;D

Pat:
Not if you treat it.

After I've finished a paper airplane, I just touch each part with CA and it will never get soggy again. 

Alternatively, you could spray it with a preservative.

Pat:
I've been searching and I think I've found the 'plans'. 

http://www.4shared.com/document/sgEeCRP1/Paper_Model_-_Submarine_Type_V.htm

It's a scale of 1:100, so a little smaller than the Revell kits buts still large, about 24" LOA.  There's about the same number of pieces as the Revell kit also, but some of them are internal support structure.

Rokket:
It's really very good. I have built some paper airplanes like you mentioned Pat, it was a book of them, about 1989, you glued several layers of card together. Some Japanese aero engineer. The F-16 flew great - once! Caught an updraft and took off several hundred meters into the woods to lodge in the tall, tall pines.

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