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Post by Vermin King on May 8, 2015 18:36:21 GMT -9
Mom likes cardinals, so I did this one from Johan Scherft
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Post by aleks on May 11, 2015 0:06:10 GMT -9
Nice! I did the hummingbird for my wife, but it turns out not so well...
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Post by Vermin King on May 11, 2015 7:13:14 GMT -9
Did you do the large one, or the life-sized one? Too thick paper can really ruin these
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Post by aleks on May 11, 2015 22:15:29 GMT -9
I did the natural size one printed on regular paper. Another proof for me that laser print don't fit with papercrafting.
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Post by Vermin King on May 12, 2015 4:46:28 GMT -9
It can work. Most of my early projects in this hobby were done with laser. You almost HAVE to use a clear coat when dealing with laser prints, and on curvy projects you have to coax the paper into shape slowly. I would take a sip of coffee and breathe out on the back of the print as a bit of a humidifier to help with that. I don't know how you could do the beak of a hummingbird without having to touch it up with paint. The Epson hummingbird was done with a laser printer, and very early in doing the beak, I realized that the beak was just going to have to be painted, and the Epson one is larger than the small Scherft hummingbird
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Post by aleks on May 12, 2015 5:01:40 GMT -9
I made the beak out of a toothpick painted black before gluing inside the head. Nice trick for a small bird like this.
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Post by Vermin King on May 12, 2015 8:24:06 GMT -9
When we did 27 of them for a women's event, we did the toothpick trick, too
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