Mission aborted

While initially I thought I'd have at least a week while away to work on this project, it turns out had only a few hours a day, for three days. Despite the short amount of time spent working on the project I managed to get most of the backpack, bolter, breastplate/ cuirass and pauldrons completed.

I'm going to consider these few bit a test run and start the project again from fresh once I have done the following few things;

• figured out how to print the guidelines on the components of the model,
• bought some more 160gm paper, a decent pair of scissors, a craft knife, some glue and a bunch of wooden clothes pegs,
• and my printer cartridges arrive.

When I printed the templates there were none of the guidelines shown on my computer were visible. This gave me the idea of trying to make the armour without too many 'sharp' folds, therefore achieving rounder looking final product. This approach however made lining up bits extremely difficult, especially for the pauldron trim, which I managed to break on both occasions.

While away, I was able to borrow my families stationery. But now that I'm back in another city I don't have that privilege. A craft knife is one such example and may prevent me from wrecking the pauldron trim again.

I can't start again until my cartridges arrive due to not being able to actually print the templates out.

Several valuable skills regarding papercraft were learnt during this little foray into the hobby, and they shall all be applied during the construction of Paper Space Marine Version 2.0.