Spread out across pages 6 and 7 is a long letter written by Mr P Walker of the West Midlands [my neck of the woods] intriguingly entitled 'Paper Soldiers'. The subject matter of the letter is a website, www.papermau.com which the writer was directed to by a friend when he was trying to find a suitable backdrop for photographing some of his medieval knights against
The site is hosted by Blogger and is essentially a 'one-stop-shop' for anyone interested in modelling pretty much anything in paper or card. The writer of the letter was delighted with the medieval castle he found through the site and, not only that, he was able to download a series of knights and men-at-arms models representing some of the soldiers that fought at Agincourt, models that he subsequently printed onto cartridge paper and constructed using a fairly minimal array of tools
Literally hundreds of sites are accessible through the blog providing a wide range of products from simple toys to superbly detailed and historically accurate representations of buildings, aircraft, tanks, soldiers and more
Why not take a look and judge for yourself? Happy hunting!
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