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Post by Gentleman Ranker on May 16, 2021 23:21:37 GMT -9
I needed some more cottages for Normandy. I have the free Small Houses sets from mproteau (Paper Realms) (Paper Realms). I checked it out thinking I could maybe use one of each. Number two and three look a bit more medieval or a bit more Tudor. Happily though, each set has layers to allow placement of windows and doors.
Their footprint is a little larger than I recalled though, so I decided on two. I printed out two bases, a couple of sets of walls with different placement of doors and windows and a couple of roofs, to only one of which I applied the optional "bird poop" layer. This will be the house of Unlucky Pierre!
These were printed at high quality on my Epson WF2750 on bog standard printer paper. [Papercraft crime #1]
They're going to be glued to card to stiffen them. Corrugated for the bases (I may cut them irregularly and smoosh down the edges to blend them into the ground more) and cereal box for the walls and roof. I'm tempted to experiment with fold flat stuff but I've not built a big building yet and I can disguise my lack of confidence behind a screen of "oh well, these small buildings don't take a lot of storage anyway"
The rain is lashing against the south bastion. Ordinarily I'd take these out into the bailey and give the card a quick spray of Stikatak carpet tile adhesive. That sticks things tight forever! It is not, however, in any sense, indoor glue. I normally leave the pieces outside in the courtyard until the fumes dissipate and the guards have stopped that irritating hacking coughing before bringing them in.
So it's going to be PVA. [Papercraft crime #2]
I've discovered a sudden liking for cereal since taking up papercraft. Can't think that the two things are connected at all.
Posted during drying time. GR
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on May 17, 2021 0:19:06 GMT -9
Scoring and cutting. Scoring on the front only. [Papercraft crime #3] Scoring before cutting out. Being aware that your blade is getting blunter but failing to change it until the evidence is in front of you! Or is that just me
The number of tabs that have had their white paper torn off is to do with my unwillingness to change my blade until it's too late and also my reluctance to score on the back because it's a smidgen harder.
In other words those accusatory tabs are the universe telling me I'm mean and lazy!
Edging and gluing next.
GR
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Post by Vermin King on May 17, 2021 4:26:21 GMT -9
I only front score. I think your tab issue is from the PVA, at least partially
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Post by Gentleman Ranker on May 17, 2021 4:34:56 GMT -9
Edging was not easy. Every time I'm going along an edge I'm lifting texture paper from the card its stuck to. So that I've got a pen in one hand and a glue stick in the other!
May 17, 2021 14:26:21 GMT 1 Vermin King said: I only front score. I think your tab issue is from the PVA, at least partially You may well be right. I'm going to try something different next time, for sure.
The houses are simple models. I like the texture, its detailed without being photo-realistic. Its encouraging me to try more Paper Realms stuff. I really like the look of the Temple of Terror and Under the Metropolis but it's typical that those are two sets I don't have any use for at the moment!
I've used PVA to stick down the edges of the roofs, where they tuck under and then glue stick to stick back down the paper off those roof borders when the paper peels off...aaargh. This means that all my clamps are in use when I get to sticking the houses together!
Hence my clusy use of fingers as clamps. Thank God or Darwin*, for the opposable thumb.
*Delete where not applicable
Aaand...we're there. A break over lunchtime for a sandwich, a brew and Shan Watches Movies reviewing Dead Poets Society on You Tube. Another break a little later to clean up some paperbacks out of the garage to go to the charity shop. Not a bad morning's building and two nice little cottages to show for it. All thanks to Paper Realms. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.
GR
P.S. I know most folk here will have done this a million times themselves and will be very familiar with the process. There does seem to be an awful lot of pictures. Are builds like this worthwile posting? Or should I just post pictures of the finished article?
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Post by Vermin King on May 17, 2021 4:58:26 GMT -9
Ask yourself this 'Would this have been helpful to you before you built them?'
Of course the next question is 'Would you have found it?'
I like watching build threads
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