paper trains

[GrahamH]

Hi everyone

I came across this in my favourites. My apologies if I found it originally on the forum. If not, it makes an interesting project for winter nights.

http://www.westjr.co.jp/fan/paper/

 

The site is fairly easy to navigate and find something interesting to make.

 

cheers

Graham H

[disturbman]

Nice catch!!! Too bad I don't own a printer otherwise I think I will have printed one. 

[jappomania]

another one

http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/papermodels.html

ok that's not japanese but it's also a fast train ;-)

 

ciao

Massimo

[alpineaustralia]

I have already printed one out and built it for my son, an EF81 twilight express. Took about 1 hour and a sharp pair of scissors.

They are quite cute.

[Bernard]

another one

http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/papermodels.html

ok that's not japanese but it's also a fast train ;-)

 

ciao

Massimo

 

Leo is going to want to take a look at that site!

[GrahamH]

I suppose it just proves there is more than  Kato, Tomix etc.

 

Graham H 

[Bernard]

 

I suppose it just proves there is more than  Kato, Tomix etc.

 

Graham H   

Yes but can you convert them to DCC? :laughing6:

[GrahamH]

very true

[Martijn Meerts]

They're easy to convert to DCC, just print a picture of a decoder and paste it on the inside somewhere before you're done assembling =)

[Bernard]

They're easy to convert to DCC, just print a picture of a decoder and paste it on the inside somewhere before you're done assembling =)

 

And you don't need a soldering iron, just tape.

[GrahamH]

I honestly can't recommend decoders being installed. They may overheat and make the paper catch fire.

 

Graham H

[alpineaustralia]

After you install the decoder, it will run just like my Dr Yllow and 300.

[marknewton]

Graham, thanks for posting this. I've been looking for a drawing of an A8, this will do nicely.

 

http://www.westjr.co.jp/fan/paper/sl/#s07

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[jappomania]

paperwork is very good like base draw to build your models (train, buildings, bus ecc..)

more examples

http://www.hanshin.co.jp/railfan/6007.htm

http://www.toyotetsu.com/dl.html

http://www.geocities.jp/playtownbingo7570/ppb-102.html

the best match is Google Sketchup 3D models > Papekura > Inkscape/Gimp > print, cut and build (if you have a friend with a laser cutter you can cut directly wood or Evergreen sheet)

ciao

 

Massimo

p.s. if someone have technical drawing about Shinkansen prototype 951 and 961 I'm still in search... thank's in avance

[cteno4]

There are gobs of these out there in japan. great stuff if you like to fiddle. lots of times its termed papercraft.

 

i have tried a small truck to see if it would work in more distant locations. sort of does at 4-5', but for the work it is, not sure if its worth it compared to the cost of tomytec trucks & busses!

 

we thought of printing out some of the shinkansen models to pass out to kids at shows, but realized it could get expensive fast and probably ruined before it got home to be built!

 

I am really looking at using the building models (lots of odd japanese buildings have been done and lots of condos and development houses as apparently folks like to make the model of what they may buy!) for T scale. at that scale you dont notice its paper as much as relief would be so minor. just printing out two or three and cutting up sides to give some layers for depth would be plenty. at the distance you would view the buildings in scale the windows would look gray and not clear anyway. could always print on acetate and just cut the windows out in the file to not print there if you did want clear windows!

 

http://www.eyefulhome.jp/wakuwaku/soft/paper01.html

 

http://homepage1.nifty.com/anraku/sigoto/p_craft/p_craft_top.htm

 

few folks on the tram list have tried some of the trams paper models by printing on acetate then backing with styrene.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Mudkip Orange]

Are these roughly N scale?

[GrahamH]

This is moving into the range of card kits that are available in the UK. One is called superquick and has been around for decades. I have a box full of them.

Graham H

[cteno4]

Are these roughly N scale?

 

paper models can be all over the place in scale and not many give a scale on them. if the scale is on there and not 1/150 you can just figure the reduction needed and do the reduction in the print dialog box when you print it.

 

if the scale is not posted, what you can do is measure some fairly know quantity in the item (ie length of the train car, standard floor height in buildings) and figure out how large it should print to be 1:150 scale. then print a test page and measure it at 100% print size and figure out the enlargement or reduction you need to do in the print dialog box to get it to print at 1:150 scale.

 

luckily many of the papercraft files are made from vector based programs so the lines are spit out as postscript so enlarging or reducing does not affect the quality!

 

cheers

 

jeff