Sorry,
somehow I did not get informed about new posts in this thread. Fortunately, I randomly looked inside today.
So, about the spiderman model:
- In fact, I found this one very easy to build after printing it out. It could be best built by starting with page 1 which is the head and going in increasing order to the last page. And with each page start from top and work to the bottom. The pdo file is very helpful so you can see the right positions of each piece.
- The pieces are big enough to handle well. Even the arms and legs are huge enough to put a finger inside for making pressure while glueing. Because of the very good model the parts form the body nearly without any special tricks
- The fingers and feet are the last parts of work. But in my opinion even the fingers are not too complicated. You just need time, dont glue in a hurry. I used a small pencil for the first roundings but it would go even without it.
- I used 120 grams paper as for most of my models. It is not too thick to form even small parts but it gives good stability to a finished model.
- 80 grams is really too light, the paper breaks often when glueing and it is just a mess. I could only imagine to use it with very very small parts, when 120 grams does not work.
- I also used 160 grams for other models but scissoring it is aching my finger very fast so it is too heavy for me. And I am faster and more accurate with scissors than with a cutter and I use the latter one only to make holes and cuttings inside a piece. Drawback of 160 grams is its thickness which means u see the white cut areas in the model after all. So I use 160 grams really only for stability purposes as for the bottom of my time machine.