Showing posts with label Papercraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Papercraft. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Be vewy vewy quiet

I know, I haven't posted anything recently. I must admit it's been difficult to think of much to write lately. I've found myself going from home to work to home to kids to sleep to work to home . . . you get the idea. I'm in something of a creative writing rut, and hoping after this weekend I'll find a little bit of inspiration.

In the meantime, here's a picture of my latest papercraft: The Disneyland Skyway!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Project Vulcania - Revealed

"...there is hope for the future. When the world is ready for a new and better life, all this will someday come to pass, in God's good time." Captain Nemo




I put the finishing touches on Project: Vulcania this afternoon and can now officially reveal it!



Based upon Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, I give you Captain Nemo's Submarine - The Nautilus! The film, of course, is based upon Jules Verne's novel. My project's title, Vulcania, came from Nemo's secret island base.



The build took an estimated 10 hours spread across four days and involved seven printed sheets. To build the model I used scissors, an x-acto knife, Elmer's glue, a scoring tool and ruler. During the build I discovered that two sections were not glued correctly and ended up replacing them. One final error remains, but at this point I'm not going to worry too much about it. I also utilized a themed stand designed specifically for the Nautilus.

The template, instructions and stand all came from www.thedisneyexperience.com, which in addition to several other papercraft projects, also offers several free desktop backgrounds, user images, icons, fonts, and projects - all with a Disney theme.

I've built some other papercrafts from this site, but they, as well as most of my papercrafts, are at work. I'll try to remember to bring a camera to work and post pictures of those as well.



Project: Vulcania - Nearing Completion

After taking Monday off of model building to regroup and decide how I wanted to correct an error I made early in the build process, I nearly finished Project:Vulcania last night. I still have one step left to complete before I'm ready to finish it. It's been a lot of fun to work on, but in the meantime, I've promised McKenna I would make a special papercraft project just for her. Pictures of both will be forthcoming. I may also take my camera to work, where I have my other papercrafts, and get pictures of those as well for posting.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Project: Vulcania - day 3

Here's a few more pictures of Project: Vulcania. I'm not quite halfway through with this build, but it looks to be turning out to be one of the best I've done so far.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Secret Project






. . . I've only just begun.

Friday, August 21, 2009

I started a new project.

And I'm really excited to see this one take shape. Pictures to come!