1 minute ago, Vae said:

I use 300 GSM white card and the boxes are pretty **** solid - Certainly give good protection when within a larger box. The gearboxes are also nice to keep all the stuff that the ship needs in one place. As Grumbleduke says make sure you print Actual Size otherwise it comes up slightly too small and the ships don't quite fit. Very frustrating when you only find out after having built it!

I print it, cut out the shapes and then score the back (I use a sharp small pair of scissors but craft knife would be best) of the shapes along the lines where I will be folding as it makes it fold a lot nicer. Then fold the box together and apply white PVA glue to the tabs which need it with a paintbrush as I stick it together.

thank you!

Looking at the PDf the nebulon B and the cr90 look like they can fit on the same page - is that correct?

The assault frigate mark II and the victory class destoyer need 2 pages each?

I'm a bit confused when you guys say print 'actual size'. Isn't that just the default printer setting? Or are you saying there is a radio button option which says 'fit to page' and make sure I don't check that?

Also, why use the PNG file over the PDF?

Thanks again!

28 minutes ago, Cybran said:

Looking at the PDf the nebulon B and the cr90 look like they can fit on the same page - is that correct?

The assault frigate mark II and the victory class destoyer need 2 pages each?

I'm a bit confused when you guys say print 'actual size'. Isn't that just the default printer setting? Or are you saying there is a radio button option which says 'fit to page' and make sure I don't check that?

Also, why use the PNG file over the PDF?

Thanks again!

Using the PDF is fine. If you open the print function there will probably be radio boxes for "Fit", "Actual Size", "Shrink Oversized Pages". Make sure to use "Actual Size" otherwise you will print a 95% sized box (based upon my just testing this).

Also you may be able to fit two prints onto 1 page but I'd suggest doing it by feeding the same sheet back through the printer the other way round rather than messing about trying to combine PDF's.

great tips thanks again - excited to be getting my own set printed out

The fighter boxes absolutely can be done 2 to a sheet. Maybe some of the small ships but I don't recall...it's been a while since doing those.