Max Holtzem's Pfalz D.IIIa available in card

[Ron0909]

Hello everyone,

I came across this magnificent site while browsing through threads
on my other favorite forum. Someone had made mention of Eric's
techniques for modeling in card and I was immediately blown away.
I've since spent some time here following many of the threads
and learning to the point of making my head spin. What came as a real shock
was to find a few pictures of a repaint I did on a Pfalz D.IIIa in card in the 'Most memorable builds vol 2'. I have to say thank you very much for this honor.
Since then, many folks have expressed an interest in card modeling and had asked if that particular model was available. I'm happy to say that it now is. With the help of DeWayne Barnett (the publisher) and a very talented test builder (Carl Beetz) we managed to get her ready for the public.

Have a look here http://www.teuton.org/dbarnett/whatsnew.htm and check out the many other offerings on the main pages.

All my best and thank you

Ron Burns

[EricGoedkoop]

Congrats, Ron!

[PC777]

The photo of the finished model looks most impressive, but why 1:33?

With the interest building up in 1/32nd scale plastic models it would be nice to fit in to the same scale.

Just curious.

All the best

PC

[EricGoedkoop]

1:33 is (for reasons unknown to me) one of the standard scales in the card-modelling world. 1:50 is also popular for aircraft.


Go figure.

[PC777]

Thank you for your response Eric, funny how these standards come about.

The Pfalz sure is a beauty, one of my favorite looking WWI fighters.

It's very tempting to try, how diffucult would this be for a first timer??

Thanks again

Regards

Paul

[Ron0909]

Thanks Eric

Paul, the model, in card terms, is about a 4 or 5 out of 10 for difficulty.
There are a few things I'd change to make things a bit easier such as the way fuselage segments are joined. The great thing about digital kits like this is that should you mess up a part, you can always re-print it. www.cardmodels.net is 100% geared to paper modeling. You can find a ton of info there. I've built this one a few times getting the paint just right so feel free to ask away here or send an email. I'm more than happy to help you through any of it.

I was freaked out by the scale as well. Most published card models these days come from old eastern bloc countries such as Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Russia. Someone explained to me that years ago (1950's and '60's) styrene kits were very expensive and not at all available to the average hobbyist in those countries. This was the way of getting models to the masses. They were printed as separate entities or as bonuses within technical magazines for students. These days, with CAD software and vector
graphics, it's not uncommon to see some kits with literally thousands of parts.
Over there, entire huge shows and competitions are mostly made up of card
models. So about the scale....it doesn't really answer the question but my guess is that's where it was derived from. With a digital kit such as this, scaling is a matter of scaling within any decent graphics software. This kit, as I mentioned, is vector, so you can make it as large or as small as you like without degrading graphics quality. There are guys that do these in paper so small you can place them on a coin. There are others that build them to fill their kitchens. As long as you print at a specific percentage and *not* 'fit to page' you will remain consistant and accurate.

Hope this helps

Ron

[PC777]

Ron, thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question's.

It does sound like an amazing way of modelling, after seeing Eric's unbeliveable build post, it has made me interested in giving one a try, and I do like the Pfalz...

I will have to give it more thought..

All the best

Paul

[Ross_Moorhouse]

So you could put a 1:33 with a 1:32 and really there would be very little difference?