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Modelmaking Basics: Advanced Tips for Working With Cardboard, Matboard and Chipboard

How to cut perfect circles, use water to help shaping, achieve a nice paint finish and more

By Rain Noe - October 4, 2018

Industrial designer Eric Strebel's video on Cardboard Modeling Basics drew a lot of eyeballs last week. This week he's back with an advanced Part 2, where he covers how to cut perfect circles into cardboard/matboard/chipboard using a nifty tool, shaping and bending tricks, how to paint the stuff to get a nice finish and more:

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Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.

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    Thank you for sharing Rain. Mr Strebel´s youtube channel is one of the best online resources I recommend to my students. 

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