Alloydog's Fei Qiu build...
Feb 11, 2020 19:14:56 GMT -9
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Post by alloydog on Feb 11, 2020 19:14:56 GMT -9
I fear where this is going, but let's live in interesting times...
First of, I very rarely build something just using plain paper, folds and tabs. I often find the tabs too small and fiddly for my delicate concert pianist* fingers and then the paper just seems to flimsy to me.
I usually stick the printed paper onto thick card, such as from food packaging. However, where an acute fold angle is needed, this doesn't work so well either - the fold doesn't look sharp and the card gets crinkled.
So, for this model, I took an extra step. I printed up an extra copy in draft quality black and white:
This means that I can first try a dry-run at the part folding and then after that, I stick the grey print to the card.
I then cut out the panels, but where there is a fold, I cut the edge slightly back from the fold line.
When the inner panels are stuck to the inside of the outer skin, it mean that the fold lines are very thin.
The outer edges of the piece are the same thickness as the backing card, so I can apply glue along the edge. This is pretty much like making a plastic model kit.
However, when I tried to join the upper and lower cockpit pieces, the edges didn't line up. So, as with plastic models, I added an inner tab, to act as a locator tab.
All in all, I'm pretty chuffed with myself for getting this far!
But, at the moment, it looks more like it's heading to become an objective marker - you know, like "get to the downed gunship before the gut-bustin' face-eatin' bad-ass beasties do" type thing.
A couple of bonus glamour shots:
Chief Starshina Popov, Demelza the feisty space wench
and Stalin, the ship's cat, check out the first part of the
gunship.
* A concert pianist who had the lid of the piano slammed down on his fingers, then the piano dropped on him and then the entire concert hall collapsed.
First of, I very rarely build something just using plain paper, folds and tabs. I often find the tabs too small and fiddly for my delicate concert pianist* fingers and then the paper just seems to flimsy to me.
I usually stick the printed paper onto thick card, such as from food packaging. However, where an acute fold angle is needed, this doesn't work so well either - the fold doesn't look sharp and the card gets crinkled.
So, for this model, I took an extra step. I printed up an extra copy in draft quality black and white:
This means that I can first try a dry-run at the part folding and then after that, I stick the grey print to the card.
I then cut out the panels, but where there is a fold, I cut the edge slightly back from the fold line.
When the inner panels are stuck to the inside of the outer skin, it mean that the fold lines are very thin.
The outer edges of the piece are the same thickness as the backing card, so I can apply glue along the edge. This is pretty much like making a plastic model kit.
However, when I tried to join the upper and lower cockpit pieces, the edges didn't line up. So, as with plastic models, I added an inner tab, to act as a locator tab.
All in all, I'm pretty chuffed with myself for getting this far!
But, at the moment, it looks more like it's heading to become an objective marker - you know, like "get to the downed gunship before the gut-bustin' face-eatin' bad-ass beasties do" type thing.A couple of bonus glamour shots:
Chief Starshina Popov, Demelza the feisty space wench
and Stalin, the ship's cat, check out the first part of the
gunship.
* A concert pianist who had the lid of the piano slammed down on his fingers, then the piano dropped on him and then the entire concert hall collapsed.
