Thanks for your advice Fishgoth! I'll try it as soon as I can actually manage to find spray glue. Everytime I go to any hardware shop and ask for one, they just give me a blank stare. I don't know about other places, but large 50 by 70cm sheets of foil paper is very easy to find here in stationery shops. They come in red, green, blue, purple, pink, gold and silver. Anyway, here is my latest model. Folded from a 50 by 50cm sheet of foil.
Phoenix
Front view
Back view
Side view
Wing detail
Sorry about the crappy pictures. My camera is very lousy. Even a tiny wobble will make the pictures blurry, and the fact that the camera wobbles when I press the button doesn't help either CP coming soon. be patient.
Great news! I found out that the stationery shop behind my school sells spray adhesive. I'm going to try making my own tissue foil this weekend. Anyway, here's my second draft of Godzilla 2.0. The first one looks like a complete piece of crap so I'm not posting it. It has 18 spines running down its back and has a correct number of fingers and toes.
Here's a picture of the spines
I'd appreciate it if you guys would post your comments. STOP IGNORING ME!! AAAAAAAAA!!!
I like all of your designs! There is a lot of potential there, but as some of the others have said, your models could benefit a great deal from better paper, so I'm looking forward to seeing how your tissue foil experiments come out. I hope you have better luck than I did; I made the mistake of trying wallpaper glue, but it isn't as flexible as spray glue, so it cracked.
By the way, I'm envious of the hugh sheets of foil paper
LOL I think I tried the same thing you did! I actually used a brush to apply the wallpaper glue on to the tissue paper. The paper got super weak when it got wet from the glue and the sharp bristles of the brush tore the paper into shreds. the whole thing was ruined. Then the dye of the colored tissue got stuck to my hands and I had to wash them with warm water and....toothpaste for about 5 times before the color came off.
You washed your hands with toothpaste? Never heard of soap, haven't you?
Maybe the white glue was too thick in consistency. Take a bit of it and try to mix it with some water to get a more fluid glue. To apply it, a roll like the small ones for colouring walls works good.
Do not apply the glue to the paper but first take a sheet of aluminium foil and coat it with a very thin layer of glue, then roll the first layer of tissue over it trying to avoid air bubbles. Take Kitchen tissue and smooth the air bubbles out. Turn the foil-paper sandwich over and repeat everything with the other side. Good luck.
Your phoenix is pretty good, but paper aside, I still think there are some design issues. The wings are very detailed, and youdid a good job with that complex feather pattern, but I don't think it complements the model very well. The feathers are going outward and the wings look rather blocky. The legs also seem kind of short. It would also be better with paper the same color on both sides, but I guess you probably know that already
I tried soap, but it didn't work I tried making tissue foil for the first time today. Well, technically I used crepe paper. But it's as thin as tissue paper and I've never seen "colored tissue" in stationery shops before so I went with it. I was surprised at how easy it was! Only took a few minutes! Anyway, I tried folding my Bahamut again but it didn't come out right. I wanted to get the belly the same color as the original Bahamut from FF7. Apparently crepe paper doesn't come in brown, so I used yellow instead. I made the retarded mistake of making the paper look more "browney" by coloring it with a crayon. The stupid crayon got stuck to my hands and it made the paper feel really wierd and waxy to touch. Also, the paper was to small because I had to keep trimming it to make sure it was a perfect square. Anyway that was a real learning experience since I did so many things that sound really stupid now that I think about it. I'll try folding my hydra with tissue foil tomorrow.
Here's my hydra, folded from tissue foil. It's SUPPOSED to have 12 heads but I mapped out the reference points wrongly so now it only has 10 heads.
The great thing about tissue foil is that it seems to be almost indestructible. When I used foil paper, it ripped almost everywhere there where sharp creases or points jutting out from the middle of the paper. Tissue foil doesn't rip AT ALL! I LOVE IT!!
Here's the draft for my three-headed dragon. Took about 4 hours to design and fold. Uses a 48 by 48 grid.
Front view
Side view
Back view
2 of the corners are used to make two of the heads, while the third head comes from the side. The front legs come from the middle, the back legs come from the remaining 2 corners and the wings and tail come from the sides. I'm planning to fold it with tissue foil this weekend.
Instead of using tissue foil, I decided to use a new kind of paper I bought from a stationery shop. It's called "verge paper". It's very thin and strong and has a very nice texture.
Jonnycakes wrote:Your phoenix is pretty good, but paper aside, I still think there are some design issues. The wings are very detailed, and youdid a good job with that complex feather pattern, but I don't think it complements the model very well. The feathers are going outward and the wings look rather blocky. The legs also seem kind of short. It would also be better with paper the same color on both sides, but I guess you probably know that already
Don't trust the pictures! The legs are actually quite long. It's just that they are being viewed at the wrong angles. One problem I noticed with the wings is that they look pretty good from the top but very blocky from the bottom, as you said. Maybe I can fix it by sinking the edges. I'll try folding it again with tissue foil and see how it turns out.
CP coming soon. be patient.
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