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Post by wisdomknight on Jul 19, 2014 6:32:19 GMT -9
I am not an amateur papercraft builder by any means but I am dumb-founded as to how to build most of these wonderful 2.5 monsters! minipapermodels.blogspot.hk/
I would love to start making cutfiles for them all but I don't even know what Im looking at half the time.
Too bad there isn't instructions or at the very least labels such as (torso front, torso back, etc)
Here's an example: The Lavasaurus www.4shared.com/get/Q95XrGsk/lavasaurus.html
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Post by wisdomknight on Jul 19, 2014 8:05:24 GMT -9
If anyone wants to help Id love to take on this project. Im sure Eddnic doesn't mind
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Post by wisdomknight on Jul 19, 2014 8:06:42 GMT -9
Im guessing if someone can hel label the parts and designate the tabs and perforations from the cuts etc. I can create the cutfiles?
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Jul 19, 2014 16:35:45 GMT -9
I'll take a stab. I've not built any of Eddnic's stuff, but here's what I am guessing from the picture. For the lavasaurus, I believe the parts are (clockwise from top-left) head and jaw, neck, body (below neck), spines for back, front legs, hind legs, tail. For the head, I'm guessing you want to cut em out and glue the left half to the right half. That'd give them an interior and exterior facing texture. I can't tell if there are any fancy cuts on the head. Looks like it from the picture. For the neck, the black triangles are tabs to glue the two halves together. It's not flat - it should end up being kinda tube-like. For the body, the light brown triangles are the tabs. It looks like there's a cut along the lava-textured middle of the body (that's the back) on both sides, allowing the piece to bend properly. The neck attaches to the body by taking the lava-textured triangular bits and pulling them over the body and gluing in place. The tail is kinda like the neck. The longer triangles are spikes, and glue together. The smaller triangles are tabs to glue. The end of the tail is glued together, but the wider end I think is bent to form a tube. The two triangles at that end are probably to attach it to the body. The legs - glue front to back, then glue to the body. The spines... I don't think they're attached in the picture. I'm guessing glue front to back without gluing the rounded ends - those are flaps to bend out so you can glue them to the back of the monster.
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Post by cowboyleland on Jul 19, 2014 16:59:24 GMT -9
That is the way I read it as well.
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 20, 2014 5:23:08 GMT -9
I building my eddnic displacer beasts, I had to cut out all the pieces and bend/curve and dry fit them first till I figured it out. The pieces are small, so I recommend tweezers (I'm fat-fingered myself) during glueing and a quick-drying glue.
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Post by wisdomknight on Jul 27, 2014 8:11:58 GMT -9
Thanks mproteau for that awesome description! Too bad everyone of the pieces don't have instructions like that.
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Post by wisdomknight on Jul 27, 2014 8:12:35 GMT -9
I building my eddnic displacer beasts, I had to cut out all the pieces and bend/curve and dry fit them first till I figured it out. The pieces are small, so I recommend tweezers (I'm fat-fingered myself) during glueing and a quick-drying glue. Oh wow, tweezers!? Maybe I wont try my hand at building these and stick with 2d minis
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Post by bravesirkevin on Jul 27, 2014 8:27:56 GMT -9
Tweezers are an essential part of the gear dude! Once you get used to them it's like having extra-long, extra skinny fingers that are good at getting into those tight spaces. They also come in pretty handy when you've got an awkward joint that needs to be held together while the glue cures.
Don't fear the tweezers!
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Jul 27, 2014 8:27:57 GMT -9
I finally added tweezers to my desktop arsenal. I don't use them often (I forget they are there) but it really does help clamp down on some smaller tabs or hard-to-reach spots. Don't be afraid.
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Post by migibb on Jul 27, 2014 12:19:07 GMT -9
That lesser-known of Blue Öyster Cult's hits of the 1970s.....
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Post by wisdomknight on Jul 27, 2014 13:48:08 GMT -9
LOL...yeah I just hate the hassle of too small of pieces.
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Post by mahotsukai on Jul 27, 2014 14:17:05 GMT -9
That lesser-known of Blue Öyster Cult's hits of the 1970s..... Has it got enough cowbell?
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Post by bravesirkevin on Jul 27, 2014 14:21:20 GMT -9
That lesser-known of Blue Öyster Cult's hits of the 1970s..... You laugh, but seriously, that song's been stuck in my head since I typed that.
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 27, 2014 17:15:42 GMT -9
Bum de da-dum --- dum --- dum....
Curse you! :-D
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