Has anyone any experience in reducing card models to smaller scales? I need to go down to 1/250th to match up with the ships. I've tried 6mm and the figures aren't too bad, but the vehicles just don't look right (apart from the fact that 6mm wargames miniatures are frequently not particularly good). I'm working on a trio of M15, M33 and X200, all from Paper Shipwright.
I made some 1/250 scale MkIV tanks from my 1/72 scale models some years ago. It was a confidential project for another modeller, so I can't go into details. So far as I know, nothing of it was published. If the model you want to reduce is a vector pdf file, I might be able to import it into Corel draw and reduce it, but we probably should get the artist/author's permission first.
With the smaller scales like 1/250, the thickness of the card/paper becomes really important to fit-up of the parts.
I just checked the Paper Shipwright webpage. I can see how 1/450 scale vehicles and guns would fit in with the X200 barge/lighter. Might be interesting.
There's another one that would probably work with them, too. The Brighton. She appears to have carried a limited number of vehicles as deck cargo (indeed, David Hathaway's kit for her contains an RR Silver Ghost, I think from her days as a rich man's yacht). I'm still researching the X-lighters - still several of them serving to this day as lighters - I can't see a horse boat having the internal steps that the classic "black beetle" design features.
Wayne - thanks for the offer, I can do that kind of thing myself, but, as you say, I'm reluctant to do it without the original designer's agreement.
