1:35 Cardboard Boxes - BIG SET 2

Parcels, pizza and drinks for a town scene

Packaging gives away the period more reliably than a uniform does. A pizza box or a delivery company's parcel places a scene in the present day just as precisely as a crate with a branded stencil moves it eighty years back. This item sums up five subjects aimed at the modern civilian setting, from an electronics shop through food delivery to a parcel depot.

Five motifs in one package

• water and soda packaging, suitable for a loading dock or the back of a shop
• pizza boxes, the hallmark of every present-day street
• plain boxes with no printing, for filling out stacks
• consumer electronics packaging with full-color printing
• parcel and courier shipments for a depot, a van or a doorstep

Assembly is classic paper work: cut out, score the folds with the blunt side of the knife, fold and glue. We recommend putting two or three pieces together as a dry run first and only then cutting the rest, because every motif has different proportions and you have to get used to where the fold falls.

Cardboard packaging works best in a scene when it does not form a straight stack. Tilt the top piece, leave one of them open, bend another and add a few cut-up remnants. The color printing can be toned down with a thin coat of matte varnish so that the paper does not shine next to matte-painted vehicles. Anyone building a display case around a modern truck will appreciate that the same packaging can be stacked on a pallet or scattered over the bed. The figures, the vehicle and the base are not included in the package.