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I admit, this isn't a topic generally discussed here. For my birthday I received a kit of S.M.S. Viktoria Luise a pre-WWI Imperial German Navy armored cruiser, complete with the brass photoetched super detail set. I've build a lot of plastic models, but never one out of card.
If anyone has any experience with building in this medium would you please offer any advice you can? Eldon and I have built balsa and paper WWI aircraft models, but this is a totally a different thing. Just reading the directions gives me a headache.
If you personally do not build models, but know someone who does, please give them my email white-water-kid at hotmail dot com. Naturally ironclad discretion about sexuality, unless they're gay or bi and then it doesn't matter.
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Registered: December 2006
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Afraid I can't be any help to you, but I couldn't bypass the opportunity to comment on what a terrific looking model that picture represents. A huge amount of detail!
Please take a picture of it when you get done and share it with us.
JimB
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I assume you mean cardboard?
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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I wish I had advice for you. I once built a traction engine out of a cardboard kit and it sat for years on the mantelpiece. I don't remember anything special about making it (except I modified it so the wheels would go round).
My cardboard was printed in clour so that hardest part - which would have been painting such details as rivets didn't have to be done. If the photo is from the box then it looks as if your kit might also be preprinted.
Best of luck with it.
Love,
Anthony
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No advice here, just a thank you for the nostalgia trip. Built many plastic cars, planes, and ships back in the day. Ah, the smell of Revell airplane cement...wonder how many brain cells I lost...
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Ive had experience not with this model but with others of cardboard
Jonny
give me a holler on msn if you want advice I have websites that may help
you know how to get me
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I don't have any advice to offer either, but, dude, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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Thanks to everyone! Special thanks for the birthday wishes. It was back in May. I joined Model Ship World http://modelshipworld.com/phpBB2/portal.php
and I'll be posting a builder's log there.
I'm not sure how much room I'll have for model building once I get to college in August. I'm "tripled" for at least the first semester. That's when the college puts three guys in a dorm room designed for two. They know there will be fall-out from homesickness and flunking out, so they over-admit freshmen and have to triple some of us up. The other two and I have IM'ed together, and I think we're all going to get along great. At least they managed to put three nerds together. I'm a math major and the other two are undeclared but will be some sciences majors.
The card in these models isn't like the cardboard as in cartons. It's about the thickness of a shoebox but very fine quality, and white and very dense and hard. Like artist's board.
Below, a picture of the Prussian Princess for whom she was named. H.R.H Victoria Louise, Princess of Prussia, last child and only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. She married into the House of Hannover and became the last reigning Duchess of Brunswick, and for a very brief time before WWI was a Princess of the United Kingdom and Duchess of Cumberland. All those royal families back then were so inter-related you need a road map to understand it.
I have to get to work!
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