Thread 626394

> I'm new to papercraft and I'm starting to use it as a relaxing hobby and as a cheap way to decorate my room
does anyone have any tips for starting out? I'm new to this and I feel I'm not very proficient and would like to get better

>>626394 (OP)
Get some nice exacto knives and a small ruler, can use a dulled safety pin for making scores, I use an old pair of pointy tweezers that are dulled so they dont slice the paper.

Otherwise just lurk around and look for people sharing models, if you're just starting out you wont have much to trade but theres plenty of free places to find shit, like Paperzone, lurk some of the threads too and see if anyone dropped shit you like.


what kinda shit are you trying to get into? or just papercraft in general

>>626394 (OP)
PaperizedCrafts has a lot of basic models of anime you could try to get a feel for how it works, the'yre rather simple and they have a lot of characters

>>626394 (OP)
just do it, its not like anyone keeping score..
i suggest try simple things first, just to get used to it..or straight to hard ones if you think you can..
and upload your finished works here or anyplace you want..maybe somebody can appreciate or give pointers to it..

You don't have to crease every fold line. It'll save you time and you'll get nicer results if you only fold tabs and sharp edges.

>>626394 (OP)
fold a fuckton of origamis before even trying to get awesome results, I'm literally just now getting good decorating pieces and I've been folding 5 years now, not like every day but every now and then, and I do have high standards since I'm autistic so you may be happy with sloppier decorations

>>626395
Paperzone wants me to disable AdBlock
How bad are the ads?

>>626400
They're not that bad

>>626401
Oh yeah one more thing
Most of the links from the touhou thread is a dead end
What happened?

>>626402
Not OP but how about the type of paper used?

>>626403
I use 176g paper which is on the thicker side for most shit, but it's the easiest kind for me to get, a lot of people swear by like 120g paper tho

>>626404
Yes

>>626394 (OP)
you could try making anime papercraft

I use 120 paper, and I also added a glossy spray lacquer, you should try that.

>>626394 (OP)
>open /pol/
>time to be racist
>see Rei in catalog
>happy day
>it's /po/

all in all it was a good day

good luck OP!

>>626394 (OP)
What's going n today?

>>626394 (OP)
A lot of free stuff here
https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer_ja/pepakura-gallery/list.php

I'm also new and would like to know how hard it is to make my own papercraft models and how hard it is to change their scale.
I want to make cute little anime girls to pose next to my dinosaurs.

I'm new to this, just started today. What a disaster. I know I messed up the bleed print for the hair, but I'm just gonna push through, and get some markers to cover that + the seams up.
Does anyone have a good suggestion on glue? They promised it would dry clear, but it looks so, uh..

>>626412
I use tacky glue, the like gold bottle shit, it looks really good for just starting, youll get better at not being messy as u do it more.

Had some time to work on this, really not the worst for a test fit!!! I had to spend a lot of time ungluing the blazer to complete it, easily avoidable mistake if I planned the assembly out better. Learning moment.
The individual fingers, and the final glue+balance will really test my resolve, but after seeing this progress, I'm motivated.
>>626413
Just ordered some, thanks. I'm working on keeping it clean, and using less glue.

>>626394 (OP)
I recently got back to papercraft and this is the first thing I tried. I got it from an archived version of the Canon website on waybackmachine, they still have models on their site today but I like the old ones better.

this desktop town (village?) one is super fun to put together and you can even make a bigger city by printing more copies. I hope you have fun if you try it!

I had to cheat some obvious parts, but it's complete!

>>626416
As long as youre satisfied with it..good job

>>626416
Dubs alert