Just a little reminder for those who haven’t read my last articles\u00a0and for those who don’t know this technique : papercraft is an art\u00a0which consists in making paper models. You shouldn’t smile, you’ll be impressed to see how much we can do with only paper and glue. I’ve seen pictures of full scale Link, Hulk, Dragon Ball Z characters, not to mention ultra realistic vehicles reproductions, and all of them were\u00a0papercrafts. As far as I’m concerned I do not print textures on paper because all my assemblies end up covered with resin and painted.<\/p>\n
In order to do it, you’ll need a computer, Pepakura software\u00a0(the\u00a0free version downloadable on the official website is good enough), and\u00a0the file of the papercraft you’d like to build (in\u00a0.pdo). Don’t worry, they are easy to find on the web, and there are\u00a0lots of choices. And of course you’ll need paper. You should take paper with high paper density, at least 160 grammes, otherwise the model should collapse.<\/strong>\u00a0You will also need glue, scissors\u00a0and a cutter.<\/p>\n That’s it for the paper part. Subsequently you’ll need some\u00a0polyester resin, the same that is used by your garage mechanic. As it drops toxic vapors you’ll have\u00a0to do it in a well ventilated place, or better : outside; you will also need\u00a0a cartridge mask, some glass-mat, finishing mastic (generally used for cars),\u00a0paint, a dremel\u00a0and glass paper of different caliber\u00a0(in my case I used\u00a080, 130 and\u00a0240). A glue gun is not mandatory but would be an advantage !\u00a0The back-lit eyes are made of a flashlight and colored transparent plastic sheets. At last you’ll need some acetone to clean up the tools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are the files I used to build Anubis helmet.<\/strong>\u00a0The head,\u00a0the chest\u00a0and the necklace. The chest originally came from the Horus files. I didn’t print the falcon head that was included in it but the jackal one that I found separatly.<\/p>\n After hours of folding and glueing I have all my Anubis\u00a0parts\u00a0in full scale.<\/p>\n I have cheated a little for the necklace. Instead of making all the three dimensional parts in papercraft, I made it “smooth” and I”ve added those elements later by glueing some piece of board. Much more simple and solid.<\/p>\n Well, this part is over, so let’s go to the garden for the next step !<\/p>\n The principe is simple. First we have to make our special resin\u00a0(mixture with\u00a0resin\u00a0and 5% of hardening agent), and then we spread it all along the model’s surface with a paintbrush.<\/strong>\u00a0The paper will be soaked in resin and will laminate while drying. That’s why it’s very important to work with high density paper. The assembly must support\u00a0the weight of the resin without collapsing. I like to work with slow polymerisation resin, it gives me the time to spread it more efficiently.<\/p>\n Once it is done, we’ll have to do the inside, but this time with glass-mat. That’s what will stiffen the assembly. The day I’d like to make a papercraft cosplay I won’t hesitate to put 2 or 3 layers of glass-mat, but for my models that are just made for display, one layer is enough.<\/p>\n The jackal head is a model totally closed, we have to cut it in order to access to the inside. I’ve cut it under the chin and then I’ve glued it back before the painting.<\/p>\n Once my model has hardened, I’ve spread on it a large layer of finishing mastic. And that’s when things started to be painful.<\/strong>\u00a0In order to get a slick render, we have to sand the mastic. But as we sand we make some defaults appear, so we put some more mastic in order to hyde them, and we sand again… it’s neverending ! Sanding is a very boring step.<\/p>\n Finishing mastic is\u00a0\u00a0very crumbly, usually I prefer not to put too much of it on my assemblies, but this time I had no choice : I had to engrave groove pattern all over the surface, in order to do it I had to put a 1 millimeter layer of mastic.<\/p>\n After few evenings, the result is slick enough and we can start to\u00a0duplicate the pattern. If you want to stay faithful to the movie there are a lot of pictures of them on the internet.<\/p>\n After few more evenings engraving the pattern we can finally start the three dimensional parts. I’ve made mine with piece of boards and modeling clay.<\/p>\n It’s now time to do some serious painting job !<\/p>\n First I painted everything with a black paint spray. Then I’ve made some black wash drawings to highlight the hollows. I’ve operated a dark grey brushing and I lightened it with a second brushing 1\/2 black 1\/2 light grey, then with a third one. When it was at my taste, I’ve applicated a brushing based on\u00a01\/2 copper\u00a0+ 1\/2 gold in order to simulate marks of\u00a0wear. I ended with a pure gold brushing on the most important metallic traces. Finally I’ve added an aging effect, I’ve brushed some specific areas with blue.<\/p>\n \u00a0 It’s during this step that I made the eyes. They are cut in a bottle made of blue plastic, the lighting is produced by a little flashlight tied to the neck.<\/p>\n Here is the final result.<\/p>\n For the record, I was so pleased with this helmet that I decided to make 4\u00a0\u00a0more\u00a0,\u00a0with different animal heads.<\/p>\n I’ve taken the Horus file\u00a0(photo 1), !i’ve asked a friend to modelize a\u00a0Bastet (photo 2) and a\u00a0Thot (photo 3) and then I’ve altered Anubis file to make a\u00a0Khnoum (photo 4).<\/p>\n You won’t find them on the web, only Horus exists, the other are unique copies.<\/p>\n And here are all the final pictures :<\/p>\n And after few months and hundreds hours of work…….<\/p>\n Anubis cr\u00e9e son propre casque tir\u00e9 de l’univers de stargate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":14582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1371],"tags":[1413,1416,1415,1417,1414],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/front.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HE2X-3SF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23698,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions\/23698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangeekstyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1.\u00a0The paper model<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n2.\u00a0The resin layout<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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3. The engraving<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n4. Painting<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n5. and then?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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