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PARIS skins up with Rizlas and dope

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Well, tissue paper and PVA...

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All well and good, but the model makers among you will be aware just how fragile this covering is - far too fragile to survive an ascent to 20,000 metres.

Why not add another layer of tissue paper then? Not a good idea, since although it looks plausible-ish from the outside...

The structure with a second layer of tissue paper applied

...the inner face tells a different story:

The inside view of the two-ply skin, showing wrinkling

Okay then, we thought, let's apply three plys of tissue paper in a single operation:

Three layers of tissue paper applied at once over frame

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