Thanks, John: Another excellent build, and you are right on about Olli's designs, they are simple but very convincing miniatures. He's been quite busy and has a good number of offerings. I like his HMS VICTORY and Container ship, two really nice designs. The U Boot model, however, is one that requires a password, if I understand the webpage. Unfortunately I could not find his email (he prompts you to email him for the password), so I left him a message on the Kartonmodell forum, of which I am a member.
His IOWA is really looking good! I can't get over how quickly he goes from one fine model design to the next...pretty fast. Thanks for sharing photos of your build, it is really impressive! Cheers! Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Freeman Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:31 PM To: papermodels Subject: [Papermodels II 33537] John Freeman's Photos--Deutsches U-Boot Hi fellow addicts-- I just finished this model of a WWII German U-Boat. This model was designed by Oliver "Olli" Bizer, who can be found on the German paper model forum http://www.kartonmodell-forum.de/forum/index.php Olli designed it at 1/262, so I enlarged it a bit to 1/250 to keep a constant scale with my other small ships. This is my second build of an Olli design. Paper model designers are a wonderfully inventive lot, and Olli is no exception. The technique I had not used before is Olli's frequent use of corrugated cardboard for structural parts of the model. On this U-Boat, for instance, the supporting structure of the hull is a slab of corrugated cardboard, and the sides and deck are glued to it. Different--but obviously it works. The other model of his that I have built is a racing sailing yacht--I posted pictures of it to this list some time ago. The sailing yacht uses the same technique with corrugated cardboard. My biggest problem with this is the difficulty in finding cardboard of the correct thickness. Likely what we get here in North America is different from what is available in Europe. The real genius of Olli, though, is his ability to simplify a model, but still have it look right when finished--and for me, the look right part is what matters. Years ago I belonged for a while to an Historic Modelers Club. At the monthly meetings the fellas would spend hours discussing if the exact curve of a cowling was right on a particular model. Hey--it looked fine to me! So it is with Olli's models--a purist may find fault with some detail, but look at this model and tell me--did you have any trouble knowing what it is? All this, and he frequently designs a diorama base to go with the model, as with this one. Thank you Olli--I'm looking forward to the Iowa Class Battleship that you have almost completed! -- John and/or Marzlie Freeman Check us out at-- http://2oldkiters.smugmug.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
