How to Make Details in Military Paper Model

That is the beauty of WW II Panther G details that you are looking at the above picture.Details are the most important thing in military paper model. So I already wrote an article in here at perikertas.com for my personla tips and tricks how to make it yourself. So please check the link and happy building.

Zimmerit in Military Paper Model

From my experiences in building paper model, especially the armory from WW II you will meet with some models that actually required Zimmerit treatments. For those of you who wants to know better how to apply this treatment on your WW II armory models I recently uploaded the article from Armorama (my recommendation when it comes to scale models). Actually the techniques is for plastic models, but if you read carefully you can customize the materials  to use in paper model. So, happy building.

PERI Paper Model Coaching Clinic (Photo Report)

The first PERI Paper Model Coaching Clinic went quite well, the participants exceed our full capacity (41 people came to this event). Concept Magazine as the host overwhelmed  by the participants spirits. Although it's heavy rain and the traffic jam was very bad (these two things made me came late to this event) the event finally took off from 6.30 pm, 30 minutes off the scheduled 6 pm. Actually I can made it on time if my friend who supposed to took me there showed up, but he didn't. So poor me I have to take the taxi and you can guess how bad is Jakarta traffic jam while it's heavy raining. Big thanks to Rino Liha, Anto, Beta, Roi,Chris and Imam who helped me by tutoring all the participants. I guess this one is not the end, cause we will meet again in 2 months time for another great Coaching Clinic like this. All the picture credit goes to ROI and thanks for uploading it.  P.S: Boys and girls please don't try this at home for the latest picture, it's very bad for your paper model. 

PERI Paper Model Coaching Clinic

Together with Concept Magazine and Fuji Xerox as our partners, PERI (Paper Replika Indonesia) invite you all to our first PAPER MODEL Coaching Clinic. In this event you can upgrade your paper model building skills from PERI professional builder.  The event will take place in Concept Magazine office building on September 23rd 2010. For more information on this event you can visit it in here, from our web sites perikertas.com.

More Freebies !!

Okay more freebies coming from my database. Those two books in the picture above originally for plastic model hobby. But as far as my concern you can apply the techniques and materials then  adjust it with paper model hobby.So without further notice please enjoy this link:

Advanced Terrain Modelling
http://www.4shared.com/file/7Lk8qu5-/Advanced_Terrain_Modelling.html

How to Build Dioramas
http://www.4shared.com/file/5Nu4rTRs/Kalmbach_-_How_to_Build_Dioram.html

My Latest Military Paper Model

The pictures above are my latest military paper model, taken by Mr Adhiwardhana on our last PERI Jabodetabek Gathering on August 07,2010. And to my humble opinion, those models are not quite enough satisfied me. My building skills is still way under those paper model builder in Europe. But, at least I will learn from my mistakes and becoming more proficient in paper model building. To share my knowledge and experience on Diorama buildings, I have wrote an article about it in here. So please check it out.

My Paper Model Articles @ perikertas.com

The picture above was my latest experiment with paper model. I used weathering techniques in order to made a rust effect on my Panzerjagerwagen. For more on this weathering stuff, you can read it in my tutorial article in perikertas.com. As you can see in there I also wrote another articles on how to cut your paper model in order to reduce edge coloring, and you can read about the importance about Test Builder in paper model.
I did this in order to give my experiences to all paper model builder in Indonesia so they can up their skills one notch. Remember this hobby is not just for fun, but maybe you can someday sell your paper model with a huge amount of money if someone interested.

PeRI Show Off in BOGOR

PeRI was invited on the event called Lomba Kreatifitas Kesatuan (LKK) on February 20th in SMP Kesatuan, Bogor. In there as you can see form the last picture PeRI representative were Imam,Roy,Deden,Rizky,Antho,Arif,Bobby,Rauf and Ricco. Special for this event PeRI can show off their modelling skills by giving short presentation about this hobby. Also from this event the member of PeRI know this terms : VAYER IN DE HOL. Also there was a wacky stories about D9 Rifle released 1.1.0 by Rauf. All pictures credit goes to Imam.

Paper Model Tools

At the end of the year I will give you my WAR GEAR for my daily Paper Model activity. As you can see in the picture above, the tools simply put it can be display on a single A4 cutting mat.
So there you go my readers, if you are wondering how many tools that I use to make wonderful Paper Model you can guess from the picture above.

Acrylic Box Tutorial (4)

In this last tutorial I will give you the ilustration when the box almost done. If you can see the first picture it shows you when you almost put all the piece to form a box. Remember when you inserted the paper model in the box you have to make it fixed by gluing it with all purpose glue such as UHU in the base of the box.

For the last piece of the acrylic you have to make sure that the air will not go trough the box. After that you can tear awy the outer warp of the acrylic so that the finished box will look like the last picture. For this tutorial I would like to thanks to Antho who provide all the pictures and Imam for the demonstration. Without you guys, this tutorial will never exist.

Acrylic Box Tutorial (3)

Weclcome again to Acrylic Box Tutorial. In this part I will show you how to form a box.

In the first picture you can see you have to peel the inner wrap of acrylic. Don't forget to do, because if you do you have to tear apart again the box and will take more time.

In the second picture please prepare the cotton bud along with Acrylic Glue. And in the last picture show you how to apply acrylic glue in order to bond the acrylic to form a box. Do it like you apply glue to paper model. Make sure one side and the other glued tightly, because we don't want any air get through in the box. If that happen, it will make your paper model deteriorate in terms of color. Remember if already fixed please wait till the glue dried, aproximately about 10 to 15 minutes. And on the next tutorial (the final one) I will give you the box picture and some of the paper model that already been boxed by Antho and Imam.

All picture are credits to Ruang Antho.

Acrylic Box Tutorial (2)

For this second tutorial I will give you the ilustration about cutting acrylic. After you measured your paper model and have the exact desire measurement for your box, use the plastic scribber along with the iron ruler to cut the acrylic.

The last picture show you how to cut the acrylic. Remember to use hard material or multiplex as cutting mat when doing this. One tips when cutting the acrylic : YOU HAVE TO DO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. As shown in the first picture, the acrylic will slowly break apart by showing its white parts. So do it over and over again till the acrylic break off.

Please remember to put saftey as your first concern, plastic scribber its very sharp. So do it with your full strength but also be carefull when cutting it.

Next tutorial will be gluing together the part to form a box. All the picture are credits to Ruang Antho.

Acrylic Box Tutorial (1)

In order to make your finished paper model secure from any harm, I recommend you to make Acrylic Box. In order to do that I will give you step by step tutorial beginning with the material and tools that we used to make the box.

1. Acrylic
This material available at your nearest household stores. My recommendation if your paper model height is less than 20 CM used 2 mm thickness. There are many thickness for Acrylic. As long as I know you must used 3 MM thickness or more if your paper model height is more than 20 CM. WHY ?? Because if you used 2 MM thickness for your 20cm or more papermodel in height, the box can not stand it's own height.

2. Plastic Scribber
Buy this tools also at your nearest household store or hobby kit. There are many range of price for plastic scribber, my suggestion buy the cheapest one if you occasionally make the box. But if you want to make the box more often, buy the best one and also comes with the highest price.

3.Acrylic Glue
This glue is special because it will make the acrylic stick together. My suggestion is to search for the store that sell this glue in one package along with acrylic so you don't have to worry to search it elsewhere. But if you want to buy it, you can also go to your nearest chemical store.

4.Cotton Bud
Used this to apply Acrylic Glue, because this glue is a danger chemical liquid.

5. Pen and Iron Ruler
Used the pen and Iron ruler to measure your paper model height,width and length in order to achieve the box measurement. Also used iron ruler along with plastic scribber when you cut the acrylic . Remember used only Iron Ruler, plastic ruler will cause damage to your ruler and may take harm to your finger while doing it.

The pic above was the courtesy of Ruang Antho.
See you in the next tutorial.

Paper Model Packing Tutorial

Here are the simple Papercraft Packing Tutorial for those of you who wants to bring your papermodel for PeRI Gathering or even long trip journey like my self to Bandung. The above picture show about my packing during my visit to Bandung. You can easily follow these 3 steps. Starting from the last picture to the first one.

1. Put Your Papercraft inside a carton packages
According how big or how many your model are you can simply use an carton packages. Wheter it small or big. In this case I use a big one cause I bring many papermodel with me as agift for my family in Bandung. Always used a separator between model. And after that stuffed it with shredded paper form old newspaper in order to make the model still and do not contact with others to avoid any damages.

2. Put Another Level of Security
In my case because the carton box is rather big after I put my model on the package I also put another shredded paper above the model till the box full with shredded paper that acts as a cushion also to avoid any further damage along the trip.

3. Voila, your packing is ready and good to GO
After that you can seal your packing by using any home seal tape. And please remember no matter how good your packing are, ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF THIS PACKAGE GENTLY.

Basic Papercraft Tutorial Video

Since I've already post the article about papercraft material and tips, it's just not right if you don't have the tutorial video of it. Well I will give you the link from paperkraft.net about it.
In here the founder of the web explain simple paper toy making from scoring till the finish model.
Hope you'll enjoy it.