When Rosebrand first came out with their pop out furniture, I was excited.  I bought and used it once.  Here are my thoughts on the experience.

What is it?

Rosebrand’s Pop-Out Furniture comes printed on a sheet which is pre-cut except for a few tabs.  The process you should use it to first paint it the colors you want it to be, then using a straight edge and utility knife, score all the places you will need to bend it, then “pop” it out by cutting the tabs.  Fold along all the places you scored it and glue it together.  Sounds easy, right?

Pros

1. It comes in both half inch and quarter inch scale, which are the most common model building scales.
2. It comes in a variety of periods, including Early Victorian, Colonial American, Two Kinds of Chippendale, 19^th Century German and 20^th Century Modern.
3. Varying in price from $10-15 per period, it’s not all that expensive.
4. As much of a pain as it was to assemble, I learned a lot about ways I could use to put together furniture.  Putting together a set of the Pop-Out Furniture made me a better model builder.

Cons

1. If you don’t paint it before assembling it, it warps are curls all over creation.
2. The paper is thinner than I would have liked, and as a result bending it in all the right places, even after scoring, is an incredibly delicate process.  For me it required two pairs of tweezers to get the accuracy I wanted for perfection.
3. Because they have you bend the backs of the chairs up and they aren’t supported, they never want to stay.  They like to flop backwards.  If they had simply made the back a separate piece with legs that you glued to the back of the seat and legs, this problem would have been avoided. 
4. These aren’t very sturdy, so they may work for a model or two, but when I throw them into my drawer full of spare model furniture for future use, they are easily crushed.

 Conclusions

It was a great learning experience, and it you feel lost in terms of how to build model furniture, doing this once is a great place to start.  After that experience, however, it will probably be easier to move on and use what you learned to make your own with more sturdy materials.

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