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This is a list of things that I made. Check my website for a list of stuff I'm making.

Hercules beetle by KAMIYA Satoshi

did you make this with the Canson tracing paper you mentioned in an earlier thread?

yea

Yes. thank you!
i also noticed you changed the topic name...thanks

Surprisingly, making Kamiya's hercules beetle with tissue foil (my own special kind, not the traditional tissue foil. mine doesn't have wrinkles, you can sink, reverse creases, squash, and collapse easily ) is very good o.o

How are you avoiding the wrinkles when you make tissue foil?

I'm making my own foil for more than 6 years now and seldom get wrinkles into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Z0efnmBhw
1st: use a hard and even surface. some people use their cutting matt or a piece of cardbox, that doesn't work well.
2nd: roll the tissue onto the foil, don't just put it onto it.
3rd: don't use too much or too wet glue

good luck

mine technically isn't "tissue foil" mine is more like foil backed tracing paper. It performs very good, except on insects with a let of appendages, and i had to the hard way when making one just a few hours ago in my car...
it became so freaking thick that i couldn't even shape it. the base was around 1 1/2 inches thick, with just normal tissue foil, it was a mere 1/2 inches thick (still thick as hell though).

Spider conch by Dr Lang.

You can alternatively click this link to go straight to the flickr page for this model.

what paper are you using? i covet it.

the modern einstein wrote: what paper are you using? i covet it.

it looks like vellum to me or very thick tracing paper

its canson foundation series, and it is only 40gsm or 25 lb, thats pretty thin I think.