VF-1 Valkyrie

Stev0

Active Member
I'm having some issues with all of the VF models and I am sure that many North Americans will have the very same issues.

A4 Paper Size vs Letter Size.

Many pages are setup so that parts are quite close to the edge of the sheets leading to truncated parts. Some designers who put parts on A4 leave instructions, artist graphics and personal info to the outer edges. When you print to Letter Size the top and or bottom gets cut off which is OK as long as parts are not interfered with.

The solution to this problem is a bit easy. Moving large parts to the center of the sheet and smaller parts out from the center towards the edges. You can get the parts closer together and allow for more parts on a sheet, placing titles, credits and other information to the top and bottom.

I sooooooo want to build at least one of these puppies. :mrgreen:
 

marksolo

New Member
I am building my first VF1J at 50% size so I did not notice any border problem.

Now that I am starting the cockpit I am beginning to ponder the wisdom of that decision. hamr

So Janx, that is funny, I find these paper models a lot more fulfilling than WOW, though I was deeply addicted to it, but I leave behind a lvl 80 pally and lvl 70 mage, now I just want to build a fleet of these birds.

as long as people are requesting new arrangements, can we have the display stand on a separate page? It is rather atrocious on the black ink cartridge and I would rather make my own stands.
 

jaeike

New Member
I'm having some issues with all of the VF models and I am sure that many North Americans will have the very same issues.

A4 Paper Size vs Letter Size.

Many pages are setup so that parts are quite close to the edge of the sheets leading to truncated parts. Some designers who put parts on A4 leave instructions, artist graphics and personal info to the outer edges. When you print to Letter Size the top and or bottom gets cut off which is OK as long as parts are not interfered with.

The solution to this problem is a bit easy. Moving large parts to the center of the sheet and smaller parts out from the center towards the edges. You can get the parts closer together and allow for more parts on a sheet, placing titles, credits and other information to the top and bottom.

I sooooooo want to build at least one of these puppies. :mrgreen:

I'd have to agree about the paper size. Granted, printing at 92% gets pretty good results without too much compromise...

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ThunderChild

Active Member
Over here we're running on A4 anyway, so I'm sound as a pound! sign1

jaeike, that looks very cool! How difficult was the canopy?
 

Getter1

Active Member
I'm having some issues with all of the VF models and I am sure that many North Americans will have the very same issues.

A4 Paper Size vs Letter Size.

Many pages are setup so that parts are quite close to the edge of the sheets leading to truncated parts. Some designers who put parts on A4 leave instructions, artist graphics and personal info to the outer edges. When you print to Letter Size the top and or bottom gets cut off which is OK as long as parts are not interfered with.

The solution to this problem is a bit easy. Moving large parts to the center of the sheet and smaller parts out from the center towards the edges. You can get the parts closer together and allow for more parts on a sheet, placing titles, credits and other information to the top and bottom.

I sooooooo want to build at least one of these puppies. :mrgreen:

Steve0,

Print at fit to margins and there will be no probs. I just printed out the Hikaru's VF-1J and all fit ok.

Make sure centered setting is on as well.

G1
 

jaeike

New Member
Over here we're running on A4 anyway, so I'm sound as a pound! sign1

jaeike, that looks very cool! How difficult was the canopy?

Not too difficult. I'm using pretty thin film. I don't care too much for the visible seams though. Better than nothing I suppose. Though I think future builds will have the heat-formed canopies.
 

wulf111

New Member
What is the size diffrence between letter and A4?

for vortex and anyone else that would like to know i found a size chart for ISO 216 paper sizes. so A4 paper is only a little larger than standard letter.
 

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Janx

Member
I have to hold my hand up here and say the A4 sheets are my fault. Getter1 wisely suggested Letter but I was a stubborn idiot and went for the standard over here (UK).

I have learnt however and will put larger borders to ensure this doesn't hinder future builds.

I don't really want to mess about too much with Shunichi's sheets and changing sheet 2 on all the fighter models would be a nightmare now.
 

marksolo

New Member
Hey Janx, I for one would rather see new models than new rearrangements of existing ones. Forget that I made any suggestions at all.

There are plenty work arounds anyway.

Can we have other volunteers work on the rearrangements and free the artists from the mundane and tedious?
 

57townsman

Member
Yeah... i really do not like the idea of printing to fit, guess I am SOL.

I've found on occasion that print to fit doesn't work :curse:. This happens when the original image size varies from page to page. What I do now is print all pages to a fixed percentage, say 93%. So far this has produced good results for me, your mileage may vary :rolleyes:

SteveK
 

Getter1

Active Member
57TM,

True, I have had the happen on a few occasions :( I now check page size before I print any model.

However on these the parameters are all identical so no problems printing fit to page here ;)

G1
 

marksolo

New Member
this build was printed at 50%. a small bird with all the trimmings.

well, it is not without flaws, but i am happy with my first attempt.

a word of caution to other newbies, the nose cone should be shaped a lot narrower at the top than at the bottom, I made the mistake of giving it an almost circular cross section, and ended up over compensating the error.....
 

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