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Post by cowboyleland on Dec 1, 2016 10:11:49 GMT -9
Does anyone know if card stock generally rolls better lengthwise or widthwise? For example if I start at the narrow end of a sheet or from the wide end? Diagonally? I was having some trouble rolling my Christmas toy soldier last night and I wondered if it was because I had designed him in landscape format. I thought maybe I was rolling "against the grain" of the paper. IS this consistent or does it differ from page to page, ream to ream or brand to brand?
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Post by wyvern on Dec 1, 2016 10:27:15 GMT -9
Heavily dependent on the thickness and surface quality. If it has a particularly smoothed surface (including varnished, coated, well-pressed, etc.), you may find that will crack if you try to roll it at all. For rolling generally, I'd suggest paper, not card, but the lower-weight card isn't too far removed from paper stock weights, so you might be OK with that. Trials with what you have to hand/want to use before going ahead will be essential.
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Post by Vermin King on Dec 1, 2016 10:50:43 GMT -9
As I look at my stack of unbuilt models, it's the long edges that curl upward. If that helps.
Thinner is better for rolling. I generally use 110# cardstock, but for the North Pole, I used 67#. Rolling has to be done in stages, and humidity helps. On the pole, I drank some coffee and gave several humid breaths on the back and then let it sit on top of a paper towel roll for a while and repeated. Once it had warped a bit, I coerced it to the paper towel roll tube, then around increasingly smaller cylinders
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Post by lightning on Dec 18, 2016 23:33:36 GMT -9
... On the pole, I drank some coffee and gave several humid breaths on the back and then let it sit on top of a paper towel roll for a while and repeated... paper model barrrista For rolling, I use "wet" glue (the white one). It soaks the paper a little but when dried is very rigid. While wet you can more easily roll it around nails, chopsticks, pencils, markers etc to form the result to want to achieve. Just be sure to not put the wet glue on colored areas with ink printing as it might blur the colors.
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Post by cowboyleland on Dec 19, 2016 4:35:42 GMT -9
Thanks to all for your input. I realise that I had forgotten my own favourite technique of running the paper over the edge of the desk to get it ready for rolling.
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