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Anonymous
I use 200 g/m^2 (200 grams per square meter) cardstock, and all my papercrafts are nice and sturdy so you can actually handle them instead of building them and putting them on a bookshelf, being careful never to touch them again... ;o)
Some say 200 g/m^2 is too hard to work with, that it's hard to fold tiny parts. That's bs, that's just your papercraft skillz: if you score the folds properly, you'll get nice, crisp folds, the same as with any other kind of cardstock.
Thicker cardstock means more expensive cardstock, though, so most people use 160 g/m^2 (that's twice as thick as regular, 80 g/m^2 printer paper). I think that's about equivalent to 110 lbs if you live in the US.
I've never used any glossy cardstock (photo paper), or metallic cardstock (and I never will ;o). Some do, and again: it depends more on your skillz (and the time you're willing to put into it) than on the paper itself wether or not it turns out nice or fugly...
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