Papercraft 20 - Arin Sitting Pose

After a time with no papercrafts to assemble (not because I do not have some printed out ready to be done) and being very very satisfied with the work of Northarant san from Mabikaze Paperworks, I asked him to modify the Arin papercraft model into a new pose: from Standing to Sitting. This is the current papercraft we are working on:


Pics from the Mabikaze Paperworks site

This time, the model is composed by several more poligons, giving a more realistic appearance, yet this means that the assembly will prove to be more difficult than the previous standing pose.

Up to this moment, this are the advances done so far:

The inner part of the panty with the legs:




Legs with shoes and panties assembled:


Inner part with the back of the panties in place:


The whole lower section assembled:









Beginnings of the inner skirt and upper body section:







The inner skirt and legs assembled:









The next step: The rest of the upper body, brassiere.
I guess this parts need to be assembled first in order to assemble the dress afterwards. Since the dress goes above all other parts, this will be the most difficult part to assemble, but we shall see till we get there.

Enjoy !

Papercraft 19 - Arin

After reviewing and buying and downloading several papercrafts from the Mabikaze paperworks site (see link on the right), I decided to ask to his owner, Northarant san (ノザラント）to help me in generating a new papercraft based on his style.

Being a great fan of the Pangya golf game, I asked Northarant to create a papercraft from their character Arin. He agreed and we ended up with this model (available for sell in his site HERE).

Here are the links to his site, containing all details from the model, from the design till the finished model (warning, site is in japanese, but the pics are enough to see the development of the model)

Designing the head
Full body including the inner skirt and dress
Applying textures
Pepakura model preview
Assembly 1
Assembly 2
Finished model
Pattern to buy

Here are the original screenshots where the model was taken from:
Having some transparency was one of the main reasons to have the model created, so I decided to make the model using Arin's Signature Outfit: Blue Aqua Dress.










And finally, the model assembled and themed:





This has been a very difficult model to assemble, taking in consideration the fact that the dress was made in a transparent material to simulate the transparency on the original virtual model. However, the result DOES worth it.

Enjoy !

Papercraft 18 - Hybrid Mabikaze

I am very fond of the Mabikaze paperworks, have downloaded some of them, bought others, and assembled several of them. (HERE is one).
After making the Waitress, I bought the second version of the School Girl (HERE the first version, HERE the second version) and decided to assemble it. However, after looking at the similitudes, I decided to create a hybrid out of both models.
The first challenge: The textures. Having 2 different models needed to uniform the textures to create a feasable looking model, so I prefered to leave it almost all in white hues. The corset and the skirt are the same white-creamy hue, the skin was left unchanged. I prefered to leave the legs with some stockings, but the printer did not came out with the proper colors, they are supposed to be white tighs ^_^
I changed also the panty texture to be coherent with the rest of the model. ^_^
Finally, since I was still experimenting with the Pepakura viewer, i was not able to change the colors of the folding lines, so they look pretty obvious on the assembly. Very handy to know where to fold, not so good once the model is assembled. I shall change those in a few, as I got hands on the Pepakura Designer and can now change the color of the folding lines to be more in sync with the model.
The head is from the Waitress model, and I forgot to change the color of the hair, however the hair itself is from the School Girl model.

Basically:
Waitress parts: bunny ears, head, neck, body, corset.
SchoolGirl v2 parts: hair, arms, hips, panties, legs, shoes.

Here the pics, Enjoy !

Papercraft 17 - Chun Li

Being a fan of the Street Fighter series, I decided to search for this title papercrafts. After some research, the only one I found was a Ken papercraft (kinda like too square in form). About 1 month ago, Noturno made this GORGEOUS papercraft based in Chun Li. It seemed pretty easy at the beginning, but after assemblying the first parts (the shoes), I noticed that the model was really huge and highly detailed.

This model took 5 days to completion. It could have been more, however my wife and I were making this papercraft for a gift and we only had 1 week to assemble it and gift it, so we did it in a bit of a rush.
Day 1: Right shoe - This might be the most critical day, because it was when I realized the size of the model. Pretty easy to assemble, it went fine.
Day 2: Left shoe - Same as previous day.
Day 3: Legs and hips - This part was a bit tricky on the tighs, but being a very big model with lots of pieces, it was not hard to assemble.
Day 4: Waist and bust - Another easy to assemble part. I decided to leave the last 2 parts on the top of the bust, close to the neck, without assembly. This was to be able to glue the arms to the body.
Day 5: Hands, Arms, Wrists, Shoulders, Neck, Face, Hair, Hair Tails, Dress - That was the assembly order. The hands are HIGHLY detailed and not that hard to do due to the size. The arms were a bit tricky on the elbow zone, but nothing to worry about. The shoulders took most of the time, being big pieces, it was time consuming! Finally, the Face and hair took most of the time, since they are formed by a lot of small pieces I neede to be cautious not to screw the expressions.
The final pieces (Wrists, Hair Tails, Dress) were easy to do and easy to assemble at the end.

The shoes are easily pasted to the legs, the shoulders proved to be the most difficult section to assemble, having the body already in place. The wrists are easy to put in place, as well as pasting the hands to the arms. The last difficult part to assemble was the neck to the body. I decided to assemble the head and glue it to the neck and finally glue these to the body. Took quite some time to dry but was finally in place.

In summary, it is a GREAT model, moderate difficulty to assemble due to the size and lots of pieces, but the result is AWESOME.

Enough talk, here the pics. Enjoy !

















And finally, this papercraft can be downloaded at NOTURNO's site HERE.
Enjoy !