There was a papercraft model of the US Civil War ironclad U.S.S. Monitor on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, but it seemed like something went wrong during the scanning process of the original templates, because an important part of the hull got cut off:
http://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2013/08/papercraft-us-civil-war-ironclad-uss.h tml :o( I gave it a go to try and fix the parts (by simply mirroring part of the hull to make it whole again, and touching up some other small issues like on the stand) and then I sent them my new PDF file. And apparantly they liked it, because they uploaded it to their website to replace the faulty file now! I have to admit that I didn't test my fixes myself though, but I reckoned the model is pretty much symmetrical, so it should all fit...! ;o) And because of my printer margins in making the PDF file, it might not be exactly scale 1:144 anymore (not sure?) but it's still a good size of course!) Here's the website with the Monitor paper model (scroll down a bit and click the two links under "Monitor paper model": http://monitor.noaa.gov/150th/students.html greetz ninjatoes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
