Hey, I'm new to papercraft in general and wanted to get into it because I've seen some of the things people have posted on here. I've downloaded Pepakura Designer 4 and I was hoping someone knew of any models I could work on that would be easy enough for me but still look really cool.
I noticed someone made a skull mask... thing and wanted to work my way up to making one of them one day, as well as some of the dragon skulls and things I've seen.
If you have any links to nice models can you please leave them in a comments? I'm not at all interested in making the little box people that seem to be everywhere either. It would be greatly appreciated.
Why do you want to learn to run before even learning how to walk?
>>554769
Well http://gedelgo.deviantart.com/gallery/ has some cool stuff if you lie low poly animals. Be carefull though, that t-rex skull is probably the most difficult papercraft on his page. I don't recommend doing this one first.
I made the stark direwolf as my second papercraft and it went pretty good ! Pic related. Basically low poly stuff is fairly easy but it still took me a shit ton of time to complete.
Yon can also look on http://www.papercraftsquare.com/ there are tons of stuff there.
I'm also new & need help.
I've wanted to get into papercraft for a long time, but I haven't made any progress beyond printing out a mask and cutting out half of it, 3 or 4 years ago. {I spent a lot of time lurking /po/ and looking at papercraft cosplay crafters on youtube, using bondo on their helmets for high detail, and craft foam for the non-helmet armor for light-weight and durability}
I'm really easily discouraged, and I don't know how to select the right project that's both easy enough for me, as well as interesting enough to be motivated to do. I have a bunch of things from games I'm interested in. Would a dagger be easier than a mask? The mask doesn't have any complex geometry, although the full thing has 6 large horns.
I found the cutting to be agony for my perfectionism. I was considering buying a $200 cutting machine, but my mom thinks it's a lot of money {I'm on disability which is low income, but I have a lot of savings now so $200 isn't much} and that I'll still have the perfectionism problem with the gluing. I think gluing would be much easier, since there's more room for error in timing. With cutting, once you do it, it's forever, no adjusting.
I looked at lots of comparisons of the recent models, and it looks like the Cricut is better quality than the Silhouette. I'm a little worried the software might not work on Ubuntu. Hrm. I think I looked into this and it requires a VM instead of Wine. {I really do have a knack of screwing myself over, making things complicated when complications discourage me.} "Even more fun, the design software runs in a browser via a plugin and you effectively "print" to the device from a browser." Sad that the software is such garbage when the hardware is so good. I really expected the Silhouette to be better.
>>555422
or this dagger. I guess there's less parts to glue on this. and it's only comparable in complexity to the horns on the mask.
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>>555422
start with something smaller or with less pieces, there's a lot of beginner level ones you can do, that mask seems a bit hard to start of with multiple pieces and lots of tiny flaps, you need to get used to how to glue them together, how to score the folds and know which pieces to start off with. The dagger seems like a viable one to start off with getting used to folding and gluing, on most papercraft model sites they'll list which are for beginners and intermediate and so on look for something with at most 2 pages of pieces and nothing too overly packed with pieces
Take it slow dude first ones are always guna have something off with them, either from inexperience or learning mistakes, also dont forget to have adequate weight paper and good glue, and the tabs dont have to be cut perfectly because they'll be glued inside and not seen
>>555585
Alright, thanks. Hopefully the dagger will work. I've got another dagger but I'm not sure if it's harder or easier.
{... I was going to post a picture of it, but I can't get pepakura working under wine without the texture on the unfolding window being black, and the old pictures don't show it fully.}
I wish there was more effort to be comprehensive. Like break down the aspects of what makes things easy or hard so that I can tell what difficulty is for which objects *I* have an interest in doing, rather than trusting someone else's judgment and rating system on a selection they pick, with neither the rating system or selection being necessarily a good fit for me.
I read up on a lot of this years ago, so I know vaguely about paper weight. I actually unfolded all this stuff myself in Pepakura. which in some ways further complicates whether one of these starter projects will be suitable for me, since picking where to separate a model I'm sure can make it harder or easier, and I don't have the experience to really know in all circumstances.
>>555671
it's got this loop on the bottom. I dunno if that makes it harder or easier than the other dagger.