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Oh and btw you are a great inspiration...I just started in this whole crazy hobby and it is wicked fun. Thanks to people like you I built my first model (Ichigo) with relative ease. You can check my DA a little later I will be posting a pic...But you and the great people over at papercraft-museum are awesome...So thank you
They're both about the same size though (70 cm) so you might be talking about the Eva-01 Chokipeta made...
They are all commercial models though, so I can't really just give you them... And because the Innerbrain ones are pretty old and the company doesn't exist anymore, your best bet for an original kit are sites like eBay or Amazon...
Anyways thanks and I look forward to seeing more of your papercrafts
You never know though, maybe you'll find a cheap(er) offer some day, but it's a big internet so you have to be lucky... ;o)
Although today even in the US it's possible to get A4 paper off the shelf in many places and most modern printers are already suited for A4 and (obviously) for the less wide US letter paper, I can't tell you where in your neighbourhood you can find A4 paper of course...
I'd ask the store where you get your regular paper if they can help you. If you really want to, they can probably order it if they don't have it, but if it really is a big hassle to get A4 paper, I wouldn't bother: normally you should be able to set the paper size in your printer program, and then when you print an A4 sheet on letter paper, it should just shrink the parts a bit. Make sure that shrinking scale is the same in the X and Y direction (so it doesn't distort the image!) and on multi-page models, that it is the same on every page.
That way, the model will end up slightly smaller, but all the parts should still fit together properly.
As for the thickness of the paper, that is a matter of finding out what you like working with best. ;o) I use 200 gsm paper myself (110 lbs index cardstock in the US or so I'm told) but other people like using 120 gsm-160 gsm, which is a bit thinner (and less expensive ;o)
Sorry that I can't really give you any definitive answers, but once you've built some models, I'm sure you will get a feeling for what works best for your situation. Have fun building!
Just figured you might have a definitive source heh. I will take a look around. And yeah I was more just worried about shrinking part and ruining the model due to that.