The range of models that are offered by many publishers around the world is huge, there is nearly nothing you don't find if you look for it. Below, you can also read something aboutįor me, the charm of paper modelling is its simplicity as far asĪnd basic construction are concerned, coupled with nearly endless options for enhancement and complexity. In a more personal sense, it is an old hobby for me, for I started with it in my early teens and have been at it, although with some rather long "inactive intervals", ever since. (The last remark was for the teachers among my readers.) By the way, even Goethe mentions that he used to construct and build paper model houses as a child, so it seems to be a cultural heritage as well. In fact, it must of course have been older, for the thing must have had some addicts if someone undertook to write about it. This is true in a double sense: Paper modelling itself is not a "new age" thing it goes back at least to the year 1802, when the first known book about paper modelling was published (Heinrich Rockstroh: "Anweisung zum Modelliren aus Papier"). Note: Some (German) pages about my non-paper model steam engines are here.
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