Paper type !A

[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?

[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.

[Pat]

I think this is the same paper U-boat model, but the builder has created the interior for display.  At least from the video, it's hard to tell it's paper.

[Pat]

I've been looking some more and came across a paper U-boat deck gun.

http://ecardmodels.com/product_info.php?cPath=58_69_47&products_id=936

The tech specs for this are questionable, but the kit is interesting for the price.

[Rokket]

that's a pretty cool gun for paper1 It will of course catch fire and blow apart on the first shot...

[Anakin]

Cool! I have somewhere an unbuilt type 205 U-Boat paper model in 1:100.

[Rokket]

will be a nice project one day

[Pat]

that's a pretty cool gun for paper1 It will of course catch fire and blow apart on the first shot...

LOL, good one Wink.

[Rokket]

Thanks Pat! (few appreciate my gift of humor...)

[Pat]

Maybe it comes from my wondering what the crush depth of a paper submarine would be?

[Rokket]

LOL! THAT's the gag I should have gone for, wood that I could..

You'd have to have a certain fiber to sail in a paper sub...

[Pat]

I had to SUBmit a paper to the gov't  to get my boat to sail, no fibBer.

[Rokket]

Ooooh, bowing to the master!

[Pat]

Got a friend to print off the paper type VII for me.  Unfortunately, he printed it portrait when it should have been landscape (now THAT'S a problem I've never had with a kit or scratch build plans) so I'm going to have to piece together certain parts.

It looks even more interesting seeing it in print. 

I've been delaying though, in hopes I can find a digital cam so I can post the progress here.  I was thinking of possibly even submitting it to a contest to see if anybody can tell that it's paper when it's finished.

[Rokket]

Would LOVE to see pics, Pat! Love to see the contest result, too!

[42rocker]

Pat 
Did you work on this? 
 
Later Tim