Warhammer 40k - Union monitor tank (patoroch)

[DaveTheCrafty]

I took quite a long papercrafting break. Now i wanted to do something fairly simple, and test water colour edges painting for the first time...
I stumbled upon interesting Warhammer 40k group on facebook - lots of free models, might sratch the itch for sci&fi + miliatry people.
I typically dont do any military models due to "boring" colors - Eli's models seems to include lots of colorful variants though
I am not warhammer fan myself, but i liked the patterns - most of them include adding 0.5 / 1.0 mm thick layers for "reinforcement/3d appearance.

All the models are free and linked for download on his FB page - https://www.facebook.com/patoroch67/

I didn't think of making pictures during the process, so only few finished items for the curious.

I selected not that colorful model as a beginners piece - 2 A4/letter pages printed on 120gsm paper. 200gsm would be imho better in retrospect. Plus it took about 1 A4/letter 0.5mm thick "book carboard" for some of the parts.

 

[DaveTheCrafty]

oops. only now i noticed there's a whole wh40k section on the forum, could some of the admins please move this topic there?

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

It looks good!
I have moved the thread for you.

 

[mijob]

Welcome back, This model looks great nice job.

 

[Chuffy70]

Interesting little tanky-thing, you should build more and share please

 

[zathros]

Nice simple model, with a high level of greebling potential.

 

[Sudsy]

Excellent work! Your glue skills are better than mine (which is why I always end up having to paint mine)!

 

[DaveTheCrafty]

not much of a skill i'd say - all thanks to glue consistency, thickness & not ovedose-ing it.
great go-to choice for central europe paper modellers - "Herkules" (made by Druchema) - universal dispersive glue - not affiliated, just saying

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

not much of a skill i'd say - all thanks to glue consistency, thickness & not ovedose-ing it.
great go-to choice for central europe paper modellers - "Herkules" (made by Druchema) - universal dispersive glue - not affiliated, just saying

When I lived in Eastern Europe (from 2007-2015), I started building paper model templates (my first one being the Thunder Fighter, designed by @Martin Saenger). I used "Herkules" PVA glue. I really liked it. I had great results using it. I would recommend it to anyone there.