krystalfan43 [2016-04-24 05:30:20 +0000 UTC]
i love you (no homo, or homo, if you want)
this is just beautiful
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shiroishiroi [2016-03-23 19:52:40 +0000 UTC]
when you make swords or spears pepakura, do you reinforce it from the inside ?
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EuTytoAlba In reply to shiroishiroi [2016-03-23 21:47:56 +0000 UTC]
Oh, definitely. They're no fun IMO if I can't even swing them at air. At minimum, I almost always glue a long, lightweight piece of wood to the inside, like the rib of a kite. For a sword of normal length, 30-50in, usually a dowel not more than 1/4in diameter. I recently made a 25in shortsword where I just used a piece of metal coat hanger bent in half. (And then applied fiberglass resin to the outside surface of the sword.) For the Black Knight Sword and Artorias's Cursed Greatsword, I used 1/2in diameter, plastic-coated, hollow steel tomato stakes from a garden store, because they're extremely light for their size and don't bend or water-warp too easily, but don't snap like wood if, say, someone accidentally sat on my papercraft. (Once happened to my old, old paper-mache Oblivion keyblade, but it survived, fortunately!)
For Ornstein's spear, I was going to use a 6ft steel garden stake extended by taping a segment of 1/4in-dieameter dowel to the blade-end of it, however since I've decided to make the 11ft ver instead of the 8.5ft ver after all, I'll probably go back to the store and see what larger stakes they have. An 8ft stake of 1in diameter is probably the best they have, so will have to extend it anyway, probably with one of the heap of 4ft 1/4in-diameter garden stakes I have laying around. Ya make enough of these, and eventually you just stockpile the parts...
I intend to film myself building a couple of these huge Dark Sous papercrafts, and emphasize the segment on what structures and materials I put inside for support. Case by case, I usually have to figure it out as I go based on how heavy the paper I printed the template on was.
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EuTytoAlba In reply to shiroishiroi [2016-03-24 00:39:30 +0000 UTC]
Not much more than building the same papercraft without supports, I just have a hefty blabbermouth... Occupational hazard of trying to become a writer on the side...
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