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from Paul M. Bucalo : Is there a perfect card stock weight to print on for paper models?

April 26, 2017card models paper Perfect print stock weight

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from Paul M. Bucalo : Is there a perfect card stock weight to print on for paper models?

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from Stephen Brown : Well, I don’t know about perfect, but I can try to put some quantative figures on it. I’ve been using 80 pound cover stock (which is what Eric Sayer Peterson recommends). Initially, I just walked into a print shop and asked for some; later, when that was running low, I found a big package at the Dayton Hamvention. I’m too lazy to cut measured squares of my various stocks and weigh them on an analytic balance (and I don’t want to cut up some of my models just to weigh the paper), but I took a micrometer to some: Wilhelmshaven 0.008″ Dover 0.008″ ModelCard 0.008″ (for the card stock) 0.004″ (for parts to be laminated on thicker card) 3″x5″ index card0.007″ Micromodels 0.010″ Kenilworth 0.0085″ 80# cover stock0.011″ ‘Strawboard’ 0.032-0.043″ (various sample of pad backing card, &c.) Bristol board 0.0045″/ply (Geoffrey Deason’s measurement) Maly 0.011″ ‘Poster board’ 0.015″ (not very rigid for it’s thickness) JSC 0.009″ Taschen0.012″ Looks like..