Well yesterday I had some time to look at the cardstock model and I think I can say I wont be going that route - it looks hellish complicated and there's next to no instructions with it. I sat down with the print outs and struggled to see where some bits went. Also my paper rolling skills arent that good. Good enough to make the odd shroud or booster cone but I really doubt I could pull that Soyuz cardstock thing together and have it look anything much like a Soyuz at the end.
As I looked over it the questions just piled up.....
What glue to use to be strong enough but not wrinkle the paper ?
Would the crazy tiny connection points on the boosters be strong enough for the thing not to tear itself apart with a cluster BP ?
How would the motor tubes in the boosters be supported at their front end ?
How to get lots of nose weight into such a fragile structure ?
What are some of the parts for ? I couldn't see from the pics where some stuff was supposed to go.
How to adapt it for strength ? It seemed I would be practically making a scratch model but from a potentially bad base. The cardstock plans are extremely good and all credit to its designer for taking it on but it looks way too complicated for me and would need way too much adapting.
All things considered I decided to forget this one. It would be better to make my own mistakes on this than follow the cardstock thing and invest a ton of time on something that I lack faith in from the off. I may use the cardstock kit for scaling for a scratch build of my own if no other options come to mind.
A thought occurred to me as well. The Apogee Soyuz IS the Noris kit with some extras and Noris would have to make this work with something no larger than a D because thats all the German law allows I seem to recall being told on here so it might be the Apogee kits might work on a D or might be adaptable to use a cluster and I would have more confidence going that way than trying to assemble the cardstock kit.
I may revisit the cardstock thing but the last time I tried cardstock modelling the designer had produced a beautiful model and what I had at the end of the process was something that more closely resembled a 5 year olds junk modelling class
Thanks for the heads up guys and some really beautiful builds in there from people who really know what they are doing as evidenced from their amazing builds of the cardstock kit.