Post by hawaiiyu on Aug 20, 2006 14:04:16 GMT
I meant to reply to the "Wheels, making them round" thread but got off on a tangent 
so I started a new thread:
Hmm..wheels, wheels. I am buiding my first paper model, a Casey Mears NASCAR I printed out at 75% size. The wheels are the most challenging part of the job (I have only the floorpan (easy) and three wheels done. Each wheel has gotten a little easier, but none are perfect.
The best advice I can give is to use high magnification, be it an Opti-visor-type device, strong drugstore reading glasses or similar lens. Check sources for the sight-impaired and see what's appropriate for you.
With high mag your tool movements become less crude and more accurate. You can get down scale of the models to the level of the model as if you were working on an apparentlt much larger workpiece. And when ou take off the magnifier, VOILA!, great accuracy.
Surgeons do it, we can too.
LAST NOTE: I've been printing with an inexpensive inkjet printer on matte Kodak photo paperand using children's poster paint with an OO brush to color in the white paper edges (again with a magnifier). Inevitably specks and crud and other debris get on the "rubber" surface. To deal with both of the above I find the lightest swipe with barely damp finger and remove a speck or blend an edge or transition between poster paint and inkjet toner. The drier and lighter the better, until you get a feel.
I hope some of this has been helpful
so I started a new thread:Hmm..wheels, wheels. I am buiding my first paper model, a Casey Mears NASCAR I printed out at 75% size. The wheels are the most challenging part of the job (I have only the floorpan (easy) and three wheels done. Each wheel has gotten a little easier, but none are perfect.
The best advice I can give is to use high magnification, be it an Opti-visor-type device, strong drugstore reading glasses or similar lens. Check sources for the sight-impaired and see what's appropriate for you.
With high mag your tool movements become less crude and more accurate. You can get down scale of the models to the level of the model as if you were working on an apparentlt much larger workpiece. And when ou take off the magnifier, VOILA!, great accuracy.
Surgeons do it, we can too.
LAST NOTE: I've been printing with an inexpensive inkjet printer on matte Kodak photo paperand using children's poster paint with an OO brush to color in the white paper edges (again with a magnifier). Inevitably specks and crud and other debris get on the "rubber" surface. To deal with both of the above I find the lightest swipe with barely damp finger and remove a speck or blend an edge or transition between poster paint and inkjet toner. The drier and lighter the better, until you get a feel.
I hope some of this has been helpful
