|
Post by slimyscaly on Sept 5, 2011 12:27:53 GMT -9
Hey I'm trying a different style of figure for my pro wrestling game. It's on hold until I figure out how to make a paper figure that meets this criteria on the title, since I tried playing some matches with the original figures, but they ended up with their limbs almost off, one of their feet off, and their heads twisted.. What I want to do is make the front side of the character, put a skeleton or armature of pieces of paper rolled to different thicknesses on the torso, limbs, and head, and glue the backside to it. I want it to look kinda 3D, so i made some part drawings in the front kinda wide, so I can glue it and overlap some to the backside, and glue that. But every time I make it like this, it looks really wrinkly and unattractive. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. And here's an example I did with Madame Meow (the random blue shapes are for her skirt): Attachments:
|
|
|
Post by revgunn on Sept 5, 2011 13:38:43 GMT -9
At one point, I had it in mind to do something like that as well. Didn't work out. I intended to just have a little 3d depth to them, not to be able to pose and bend them. Unless you go into Eddnic style or Tirick style, I have no suggestions. You'd have to do your printing on something flexible, rather than paper. Otherwise, its gonna wrinkle. Good luck.
|
|
|
Post by slimyscaly on Sept 5, 2011 14:50:22 GMT -9
Yeah, but what can I put inside the limbs to mot exactly make them 3D, but tougher? Pipe cleaners sound reasonable. What do you think?
|
|
|
Post by revgunn on Sept 5, 2011 18:22:19 GMT -9
It could work... I dunno. Never tried it.
|
|
|
Post by Tommygun on Sept 5, 2011 19:10:00 GMT -9
I made mini potato chip bags by stuffing cotton balls into them. You may have to add glue tabs along the sides though?
|
|
|
Post by eddnic on Sept 6, 2011 2:35:37 GMT -9
Maybe you can try gluing thin iron wires with super glue on one side first. Then glue the other side to finish the model.
Honestly, I have not tried this before. Only used iron wire once to mend a particularly week leg for a large model. But this may be a lot of effort to iron wire the whole thing.
|
|
|
Post by Vermin King on Sept 6, 2011 5:37:50 GMT -9
Piano wire is readily available and would be able to be glued between the two layers. Several modelers do this already, but on static pieces, not bendies.
On Cowboy's guys, I put shims between the two layers to make thicker. A combination of wire and shims 'should' work.
|
|