I was intrigued when I saw this,I never worked on this type of kit,how are they,are they all paper,how would parts like the guns and deck fittings,ship boats be formed,I have no understanding,but it looks like a nice outcome,and not too expensive.
That being said,are we ever going to see a new tooled 1/350 plastic Emden or even a nice 1/200 ??
It is all paper that you cut and shape.
I own a few (other ships and some vehicles) that I planned to use as “drawings” for scratch building from styrene sheets.
I bought them from a shop in Poland. This is their search result page for SMS Emden with paper kits and accessories (1/200 and 1/250).
For some other kits the product page shows some of the content with parts and the instruction sheets, this is the Polish WW II destroyer Grom in 1/100 scale to give some idea about what a card model can be.
In my opinion a card model is somewhere between a scale plan and a kit.
You don’t need to figure out the parts and their geometry but you still have to cut them out and shape them.
Thanks Robin,I think I will probably try to master plastic first 
There’s a lot of Russian ex pats here that only build paper kits and they do maybe one per year due to the time it takes form them
You wouldn’t believe the beautiful work that they do some of the time it’s unbelievable. Some of the kids don’t even look like their paper until you actually get up close to it you don’t need a lot of dowels and like a rolling pin you know to use this forming quite interesting I tried it with a paper aircraft that I picked up in a magazine the old is really Air Force magazine used to have paper models in it and I tried it let’s just put it this way I didn’t get past the third forming stage so good luck
There is a wealth of information about and build photos of paper models here:
Thanks for the info,helps me to appreciate that I would be in over my head,but really that is some beautiful work.
Ok, So’ I’m totally impressed.
POTM 2024 July – T-34/76 Halinski 1:25 Scale by Stas76 - PaperModelers.com
There is no way I would have thought this was a paper model